Photographer, human rights activist and founder of the Human Thread Foundation
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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...
No One Ends Slavery Alone
For years, I have asked people to look. To look at the young man emerging from an illegal gold mine, at families working in brick kilns, at children on fishing boats, and at people whose labor is hidden inside the things we buy and use ever...
The Photograph I Didn’t Make
I was with a young girl who had been sex trafficked. She was badly injured.
My camera was with me, but I didn’t reach for it.
I have spent years photographing people living in circumstances most of us will never see. Much of my wo...
What a Photograph Owes the Person in It
Years ago, on the shore of Ghana's Lake Volta, I watched a wooden fishing boat slide across the water and thought I was looking at a family out early to catch the evening meal. My translator corrected me sharply. These were enslaved teenage...
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