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I have been into more refugee camps in the world that I would care to talk about.
My last work in Darfur really struck a cord with me that, you know, I have been doing this for such a long time. It never gets easy.

My first image in Darfur was / hour and a half away from eastern Chad border when I left the UN camps, it was a massive grave site. And you didn't have to go further into Darfur to see what was happening.

I saw that people on the ground, and they went, / moved very slowly, they weren't in the tent; they had just arrived across border from Darfur into Chad. They spent, you know, a long journey over twenty days, uh, walking by foot, uh, to get to this camp in eastern Chad, and they literally collapsed from exhaustion. What you saw is this fear that they fled from Darfur. They have gone through / rape, especially the women, uh, they have seen their village burned, they've seen their family members, brother and uncle shot in front of them, yet they are able to pull their things together, their children, and make it into these camps.
A woman arrived in, with her seven children, and if you look at that image, each child has a different face.You know, war is not good for anyone of course. But a child was the face of war much differently. A young rebel I was with named Goma. He was about 15 years of age; he was very rambunctious young teenager, not different than any other teenager around the world. He always had this amazing smile on his face. And I asked how did Goma come to join the rebels, That very beautiful smile on this child's face begins to disappear. Both of his parents were shot and killed in front of him, and tears started to come down / his eyes, and he didn't want to talk about it anymore. That affected me still to this day, uh, if Goma is still alive, or is he still with the rebel groups.

The families are now living under the trees, and as soon as they saw me, they laid down a carpet, and there was a young boy coming out to serve me tea and, you know, it just overwhelmed me, they still had this hospitality.
These people are running out of time, they have run out of a time ago and they are just waiting, basically, and you know in suffering. We have a second chance this time to get it right, last time we got it wrong, because we came out of Rwanda, you know, in history you don't get too many second chances, and now we have one.

This was my last image. After the shelter clicks, yeah, there are moments when you really think to yourself, you know, what am I doing here, and how did they get to this point, and how can humanity treat each other the way it has, uh, in these situations. And so, yep, you know you are a human first and you are a photography second, and so, you bring that with you always.

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