About counting chest bullets / Duane Mendoza

Capturing realities of life—one shot at a time.

"Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty." (Aristotle)

Faithful adherent to James Nachtwey's credo--

"...everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there - to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they are doing and pay attention to what is going on - to create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media and shake people out of their indifference - to protest and by the strength of that protest to make others protest.

I attempt to become as totally responsible to the subject as I possibly can. The act of being an outsider aiming a camera can be a violation of humanity. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person's predicament. The extend to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other, and to that extent I can accept myself." (Why photograph war?, 2001)

Life's cause and effect, this is it--

"What, then, is that about which we ought to employ our serious pains? This one thing, thoughts just, and acts social, and words which never lie, and a disposition which gladly accepts all that happens, as necessary, as usual, as flowing from a principle and source of the same kind." (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, AD 121-180)

"Seize the moment and it will echo forever" (Stone Cold Steve Austin, 2001)

On friendship, beer and the occasional mishaps--

"True company is rare and must be kept raw with drink, distance, a few fangs, and scandals" (Ricardo De Ungria)

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counting chest bullets
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