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