Moises Saman, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer: ‘Portraying people’s dignity has been my guiding principle’
The photojournalist has covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Sudan for more than 20 years
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I always try to keep in mind that I’m photographing people; I don’t want to reduce them to the category of “victim.” I try to be more ambiguous visually. That opens other aesthetic doors; you can take other liberties, like this idea of photographing what’s not photographable — absence, what remains, pain — which was very important in the photos of Syria. This has forced me to look for different aesthetic solutions; I don’t know if it’s beauty.