I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good to tell people they were beautiful and special.

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

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

I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good to tell people they were beautiful and special.

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

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 wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show the human side of it.