Philip Gibbs

It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same.

It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.

But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.