Lisa Kristine quotes

“There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.”
-- Lisa Kristine

Source : FaceBook post by Lisa Kristine from May 28, 2014

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“One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.”
-- Lisa Kristine

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“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

Source : FaceBook post by Lisa Kristine from Apr 26, 2014

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“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

Source : FaceBook post by Lisa Kristine from Oct 16, 2013

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

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“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

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“I see myself as a witness to humanity.”
-- Lisa Kristine

Source : "Q&A With Lisa Kristine, Photographer of Slaves". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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“More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.”

“The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.”

“Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."”

“You seen it, was it as pretty as me?”

“If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster”

“Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.”

“The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. Vulnerability. You can be assaulted while you are laughing.”

“Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.”

“I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.”

“Chop your own path. Get off the car track”