Wise words

"The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I'm benefiting from someone's else tragedy. This idea hunts me. It's something that I have to reckon with everyday. Because I know that if ever allow genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect by the other persons predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other, and to that extent I can accept myself." James Nachtwey in War Photographer by Christian Frei, 2001