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Richard Mill’s motto was ‘you’re only as good as your next photograph’. He was always working and striving to take the ultimate picture
via The Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2023/10/29/my-brother-was-a-war-photographer-who-died-by-suicide-his-pictures-comfort-me/
And although we’ll never know why, it doesn’t stop us wondering. And sometimes we have to be careful not to drive ourselves mad in the process. Was it PTSD? Did he empathise so much that his emotional reserves ran out? Did he feel too much of the pain of those he photographed?