Here I Am Quotes

“She became excited by the memory like a person who has been through combat or seen strange things and had their moral compass turned so much so that the springs inside have become a little unhinged.”
― Huffman, Alan, Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer

“Moments of profound fear have a kind of beautiful purity, Anderson said. All of the gray areas of life disappear, and there is only the matter of living or dying. “And the simplicity of that, the crystal clarity of that, is so powerful, so beautiful and it’s—it’s hard to put that into words, but calling it adrenaline, or chalking it up to being an adrenaline junkie, that’s not it at all, that totally misses the point.”
― Huffman, Alan, Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer

“photographers who cover those situations, we do have a little bit of a screw loose in that sense of being like moths to a flame, being drawn to experiencing that fear. It’s a powerful magnet that pulls you in, of wanting to know what that’s like, and wanting to experience that fear, kind of wanting to see how deep that fear can run. Seeing how close to the flame you can stand without getting burned. Problem with that is, you stand a good chance of getting burned at some point.”
― Huffman, Alan, Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer