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, I flew down to Los Angeles and met with the director of Free the Slaves; thus… — 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
