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00:13Oscar Wilde had a great line,
00:14that you can tell a country by its prisons.
00:16I think in many ways you can tell also a country by its news
00:19and their approach to news.
00:22When people come and look at it close,
00:24the first thing they do is they go, oh, my God.
00:26That's people's natural reaction to pictures like this.
00:30This was the first camera I had.
00:34They had killed a person.
00:37And when I arrived to the delegation
00:39to greet the public minister,
00:40they said,
00:41oh, look, I'm going to retry a corpse that arrived.
00:44I was nine years old.
00:46As a child, I saw 30, 40 corpses daily.
00:50If you think about photography,
00:51and you think even on things that seem nice
00:54and memories are always tender,
00:56his photographs are literally
00:58a birth of a bad memory.
01:10These photographs are very real,
01:11but I don't feel as though they celebrate violence.
01:14There are times when I took 100 photos in one day,
01:17in the month, 3,000, in the year,
01:19and then 49 years.
01:20He was basically doing a job,
01:21so he's not an art photographer.
01:22He was basically doing a job,
01:23so he's not an art photographer.
01:24He was basically doing a job,
01:25so he's not an art photographer.
01:26He was basically doing a job,
01:27so he's not an art photographer.
01:31in Mexico,
01:55All of these people, they started off that day as normally as they would.
02:08This was all just the randomness of the universe, which connects them to you and me now today.
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