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“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 of my life.”

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When a photographer or a person sees your beauty, your inner beauty, it makes you feel special like, "Wow, someone saw that within me."

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What I strive to do through my work, is to teach compassion. You need to have a lot of it, in this day and…

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

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I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a dignified way. They might have been killers in Vietnam, but I'm seeing another side of them, and looking at images of the the American soldiers, also the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong - I never saw an…

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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…

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Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of…

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The images of war inspired me to create, to go to different situations and communities, to document the human side of people, to show…

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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…

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I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good…

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I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the…

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I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show…

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

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