Lisa Kristine

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

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

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.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.