Lisa Kristine Quotes

United States, Photographer
September 2, 1965

Lisa Kristine (born September 2, 1965) is an American humanitarian photographer, activist, and speaker. Her photography career has documented indigenous cultures and social causes, such as modern slavery, in more than 100 countries. Through her work, Kristine has supported numerous charities and humanitarian organizations. She has published six books and has been the subject of four documentaries.

Also known as Activist

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

Lisa Kristine
- Photography
Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

Lisa Kristine
- World
- Slavery

Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them homes-away-from-home. But there can be dark corners in familiar places.

Lisa Kristine
- Home
- Dark
- Slavery
My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

Lisa Kristine
- Work
- Soul
- Trust
The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the company to get them from India, where the labor is free. We are all connected. And we all have human value. That's what my work is about.

Lisa Kristine
- Work
- May
- Free
Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

Lisa Kristine
- People
- World
- Good
In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery; weeks later, I flew down to Los Angeles and met with the director of Free the Slaves; thus began my journey into exploring modern-day slavery.

Lisa Kristine
- Free
- Peace
- Journey
I see myself as a witness to humanity.

Lisa Kristine
- Humanity

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

Lisa Kristine
- People
- War
- Past
My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.

Lisa Kristine
- Life
- Parents
- Son