Lisa Kristine (born September 2, 1965) is a photographer. Read full biography of Lisa Kristine →
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.
One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.
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... →
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... →
Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.
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... →
I see myself as a witness to humanity.
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... →
Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced... →
Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them... →
Lisa Kristine (born September 2, 1965) is a photographer.