music ] my career advanced in the old-fashioned traditional way from the hometown newspaper, the vista press, to the oceanside blade tribune a little bit bigger, and then i went to the n diego union and i had pretty much the whole county. but when i went to los angeles times, the world was my beat. [ music ] well, i was with the san diego union tribune in 1980 when the editors came to me and said, "we'd like you to go to central america and photograph post-revolutionary nicaragua and the current civil war in el salvador and guatemala." and the theme of that entire three-month photo essay was revolution on our doorstep. [ screaming ] i saw dead bodies all over the place. took me into the jungles, learning how to work with the police and the army. so i had to learn my skills in spanish. i had to improve them. i had to learn how to spend money and stay within budget. i had to learn how to try to get these images back to the newspaper. so nothing you can learn in school in that regard. [ speaking in foreign language ] when i'm working in mexico or latin america, i'm veryomfortable. i'm not a pol