American soldier Quote by Jamel Shabazz

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

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

Sometimes we are just divided, but we still, for the most part, we have similar hopes and dreams.

— Jamel Shabazz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places.

— Jamel Shabazz