Photography Can Be Perceived As The Opposite

The Pictures That Were Coming From Vietnam Were Showing Us What Was Really Happening On The Ground Level. It Was In Contradiction To What Our Political And Military Leaders Were Telling Us. They Were Straight Forward Documentary Images. A Powerful Indictment Of The War, Of How Cruel And Unjust It Was. When I Finally Decided What To Do With My Life, It Was To Follow In That Tradition.

Photojournalists Know The Horrors Of War Can Only Be Exposed At Close Range. Kodak Film.

Is It Possible To Put An End To A Form Of Human Behavior Which Has Existed Throughout History By Means Of Photography?

I Began After College, About 1972. I Began To Teach Myself Photography. I Went To Work For A Local Newspaper For Four Years As A Kind Of Basic Training.

If Im Feeling Outraged, Grief, Disbelief, Frustration, Sympathy, That Gets Channeled Through Me And Into My Pictures And Hopefully Transmitted To The Viewer.