Photographer, human rights activist and founder of the Human Thread Foundation
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They Were Wearing School Uniforms
Years ago in Nepal, I came across children carrying enormous slabs of slate down a mountain. The stones were so large in relation to their bodies that several children would help lift one onto another child’s back. It was held in place with...
The Price of a Small Debt
Image by Lisa Kristine
Eighteen dollars.
Where I live, that is lunch. A taxi across town. Nothing any of us would call a life-changing sum.
When I spoke at TED, I said that entire families can be enslaved for generations over a debt as s...
What a Photograph Cannot Tell You
Photograph by Lisa Kristine
A young man looks directly into the camera. Pink silk hangs above him. Blue silk rests across his arms, and his hands are stained with dye. A child is visible at the edge of the frame.
The color is what first d...
The Question That Changed How I See Modern Slavery
When people hear the word slavery, they often imagine chains. But after years of documenting modern slavery, I came to understand that one of the most important questions is much simpler: Can this person leave?
That question changed the wa...
Compassion Is Not What We Think It Is
Photograph by Lisa Kristine
“Empathy is not enough.”
My friend Kailash Satyarthi said this last week while speaking about compassion, and the distinction stayed with me.
Kailash, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has spent decades fighting c...
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