Quotes by Lisa Kristine - Page 1

I see myself as a witness to humanity.
Lisa Kristine / Photographer
Humanity
Witness
Myself See I See
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Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.
Lisa Kristine / Photographer
Illegal
Slavery
World
Everywhere
Exists
Over
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One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.
Lisa Kristine / Photographer
Advantage
Language
Photography
Visual
Transcend
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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 it goes on.
Lisa Kristine / Photographer
War
Civil War
Past
Thinking
Photographs
Civil
Distant
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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 a lens-to-soul thing.
Lisa Kristine / Photographer
Authenticity
Establishment
Lenses
Soul
Trust Work Me
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There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Lisa Kristine / Photographer
Inspiration
Motivation
Taken
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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. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.
Lisa Kristine / Photographer
Daughter
Adopted
Died
Ethiopia
Malaria
Orphanage
Life My Life Parents
Life Parents My Life
Lights
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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 themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.
Lisa Kristine / Photographer
Jobs
Good Education
People
Promise
Education Work Good
False
Forced
Trick
Promises
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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 homes-away-from-home. But there can be dark corners in familiar places.
Lisa Kristine / Photographer
Corners
Familiar
Considered
Locations
Oddly
Photographing
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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 company to get them from India, where the labor is free. We are all connected. And we all have human value. That's what my work is about.
Lisa Kristine / Photographer
Cheaper
Company
Connected
Driveway
Labor
Rocks
Stones
All Day
Work Your Value
Breaking
Work May Your
Work Free Day
Spend
Slaves
Value
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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; weeks later, I flew down to Los Angeles and met with the director of Free the Slaves; thus began my journey into exploring modern-day slavery.
Lisa Kristine / Photographer
Journey
Dedicated
Exploring
Flew
Los Angeles
Modern Day
My Journey
Summit
Supporter
Vancouver
Angeles
Los
Thus
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