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 have to study your subject.
Jamel ShabazzPhotography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life.
Jamel ShabazzI'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.
Jamel Shabazz