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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow.

I once visited a village of primitive people.At village, I felt time and life moved slower.

Don't just settle for surviving

We use to think that we’ll go to Heaven if we avoid sins or have our pastor remove them. To labor ourselves into paradise is a new and somewhat discouraging perspective.

It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

Careful, luv. I might be angry with you, but that doesn't mean I don't still want you. So if you do that again, I'll shag you right here, right now, and sod anyone who wants to watch

Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey.

The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.