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.

I read a recent statistic that eighty-seven percent of women are dissatisfied with themselves, and over forty-seven percent of men. My work is visu-medicine to heal people and see beauty within people.

The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.

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

I do believe in angels and I believe that a lot of these people I'm supposed to meet. The photograph serves as evidence; it causes me to reflect on when I met this person.

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

I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives.