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Lisa Kristine

(1965) Photographer United States

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Lisa Kristine is a photographer from the United States, best known for A human thread.

Quick Facts About Lisa Kristine

Born: September 2, 1965
Nationality: United States
Profession: Photographer
Notable works: A human thread

About Lisa Kristine

Lisa Kristine is an American humanitarian photographer, activist, and speaker. For more than four decades, her photography has documented indigenous cultures and social causes, such as modern slavery, in more than 150 countries. Through her work, Kristine has supported charities and humanitarian organizations. She is a member of the Explorer's Club.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Lucie Award

Quotes by Lisa Kristine

There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa…

Amount

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My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria.…

Adopted

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In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery;…

Angeles

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The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the…

About

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When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet…

Civil

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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…

About

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One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

Advantage

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Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find…

Around

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Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them…

Been

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I see myself as a witness to humanity.

Humanity

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Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

Everywhere

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