My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life. — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade. — Lisa Kristine Copy Share
My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery; weeks later,… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the company to… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language. — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them homes-away-from-home. But… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
