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

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

I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives..

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

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

When I approach a person, I feel a certain way. If I don't feel that way, I'm not going to approach that individual. "I see something in you" - I wan….

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

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-m….

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

The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary..

When you look at my photos, just look into the eyes of my subjects. The eyes say so much..

There is just something about the common being. My education pretty much came from the streets, just connecting with people, different cultures. I ga….

I remember growing up and hearing the word "ugly" a lot. "I'm ugly." "She ugly." "He ugly." I hated it then, and I hate it now. I go past physical be….

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

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

I place myself in situations where a lot of people are going to be, and bring a particular body of work that reflects the people already there. You h….

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 mi….

There was a time in my life that I may not have been that nice, and now I'm in a position to contribute to the education of young people, and teach t….

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 ….

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

For the most part, as a society, we are not happy with ourselves..