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.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes we are just divided, but we still, for the most part, we have similar hopes and dreams.

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

Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of war and at that time, I wanted to be a war photographer, based off his work.