...He was not going to justify the brutal truth of his photographs, like other photographers - those who claim that they rush to hot spots because they hate war and want to end it forever. He did not intend to collect various manifestations of existence and did not try to interpret them. He wanted only one thing - to comprehend the laws and formulas, to find the key to the code that would make any pain bearable. From the very beginning, he was looking for something special - a starting point, a focus that would help calculate or intuitively grasp the confusion of curved and straight lines, a puzzle, the chaotic movement of chess pieces, through which the mechanism of life and death, chaos and its manifestations appears; he was interested in war as a structure, as the naked, shameless skeleton of a gigantic cosmic absurdity...