I do believe in angels and I believe that a lot of these people I'm supposed to meet. The photograph serves as… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
When a photographer or a person sees your beauty, your inner beauty, it makes you feel special like, "Wow, someone saw that within me." — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
What I strive to do through my work, is to teach compassion. You need to have a lot of it, in this day and… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are just divided, but we still, for the most part, we have similar hopes and dreams. — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a dignified way.… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
The majority of the people I've taken photographs of, I've had conversations with. "What are your goals and aspirations?" "What are you about?" It's… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
The images of war inspired me to create, to go to different situations and communities, to document the human side of people, to show… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
I read a recent statistic that eighty-seven percent of women are dissatisfied with themselves, and over forty-seven percent of men. My work is visu-medicine… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
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