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

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 enemy.

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.

For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.

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

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

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