I have been taking photographs in the Americas and Europe for five decades. My subject has most often been people engaged in struggles for social justice and other creative acts aimed at making the world a better, more humane place (though that has sometimes meant engaging with people who seem to be bent on doing the opposite.) I always strive to be deeply and respectfully present in each situation and to avoid the voyeurism, sensationalism and other invasions that sometimes characterize photo journalism. When I feel that's not possible I don't take the picture. 

My technical approach is guided by a wish to be as engaged as my subjects: I work up close, with a fairly low tech kit of a few short focal length lenses suitable for making spontaneous images with available light, from the middle of whatever situation I find myself in .