When a photographer or a person sees your beauty, your inner beauty, it makes you feel special like, "Wow, someone saw that… — Jamel Shabazz Beauty 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… — Jamel Shabazz Compassion Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are just divided, but we still, for the most part, we have similar hopes and dreams. — Jamel Shabazz Divided 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… — Jamel Shabazz Courses 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… — Jamel Shabazz American soldier 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… — Jamel Shabazz Aspiration 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… — Jamel Shabazz Horror 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,… — Jamel Shabazz Community 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… — Jamel Shabazz Beauty within 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… — Jamel Shabazz Beautiful 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… — Jamel Shabazz America 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]… — Jamel Shabazz Documents Copy Share Image
My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places. — Jamel Shabazz Cameras Copy Share Image
There is just something about the common being. My education pretty much came from the streets, just connecting with people, different cultures.… — Jamel Shabazz Common Copy Share Image
I remember growing up and hearing the word "ugly" a lot. "I'm ugly." "She ugly." "He ugly." I hated it then, and… — Jamel Shabazz Beautiful Copy Share Image
For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know. — Jamel Shabazz Astronomy Copy Share Image
I place myself in situations where a lot of people are going to be, and bring a particular body of work that… — Jamel Shabazz Body Copy Share Image
There was a time in my life that I may not have been that nice, and now I'm in a position to… — Jamel Shabazz Addresses Copy Share Image
For the most part, as a society, we are not happy with ourselves. — Jamel Shabazz Community Copy Share Image
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 Angel Copy Share Image
I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances… — Jamel Shabazz Certain Copy Share Image
When you look at my photos, just look into the eyes of my subjects. The eyes say so much. — Jamel Shabazz Eye Copy Share Image
The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual… — Jamel Shabazz Communication Copy Share Image
When I approach a person, I feel a certain way. If I don't feel that way, I'm not going to approach that… — Jamel Shabazz Approach Copy Share Image
