Photography 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.

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.

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.

For the most part, as a society, we are not happy with ourselves.

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.

There was a time in my life that I may not have been that nice, and now I'm in a position to contribute to the education of young people, and teach them to be compassionate, be more loving, more caring, to not use profanity, to not pollute the environment - these are things that I address in my photography. I

Photography 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.