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.

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.

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

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

Memories can sometimes be more powerful than the present.

Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

Worst memory is when I was fighting for a living. You have to fight and train no matter how bad your injuries. This at times made the fun go away.

I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one.

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.

...this pause of rest, This morning hush before the sun.

Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer.