Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda.
Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.
To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.
Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate.
I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.
I'm pretty strict with videos, at least the imagery stuff.
There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
