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Jamel Shabazz Biography

Jamel Shabazz (born in Brooklyn, New York) is an African-American, fashion, fine art, and documentary photographer. Shabazz has gained international recognition through his various books, exhibitions, and editorial magazine works.

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I do believe in angels and I believe that a lot of these people I'm supposed to meet. The photograph serves as evidence; it causes me to reflect on when I met this person.

Angel, Believe, Causes, People, Supposed

Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of war and at that time, I wanted to be a war photographer, based off his work.

Based, Magazines, Photographer, Time, Vietnam, War

I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the horrors of war. It inspired me to document prostitution; inspired me to document homelessness in America. We are the richest country in the world, yet we have people suffering, so it helped me to look at things in that manner.

Country, Helped, Inspired, Look, Photography, War

I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives.

Change, Human, Photography, Think, Thinking, War

When a photographer or a person sees your beauty, your inner beauty, it makes you feel special like, "Wow, someone saw that within me. "

Inner Beauty, Person, Special, Wow

The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.

Degrees, Diaries, Evidence, Part, Photograph, Visual

I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good to tell people they were beautiful and special.

Beautiful, Photography, Struggle, Stutter, Voice

I read a recent statistic that eighty-seven percent of women are dissatisfied with themselves, and over forty-seven percent of men. My work is visu-medicine to heal people and see beauty within people.

Beauty, Medicine, Men, People, See

I remember growing up and hearing the word "ugly" a lot. "I'm ugly. " "She ugly. " "He ugly. " I hated it then, and I hate it now. I go past physical beauty; I tell people they have a beautiful spirit and that is something different.

Beautiful, Beauty, Different, Growing Up, Hate, Spirit

My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places.

Cameras, Compass, Different, Guided, Places

For the most part, as a society, we are not happy with ourselves.

Happy, Not Happy, Part, Society

Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life.

Allows, Course, Humbling, Made, Photography

When I approach a person, I feel a certain way. If I don't feel that way, I'm not going to approach that individual. "I see something in you" - I want the person to know that.

Approach, Individual, See, Want, Way

For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.

Chance, Invisible, People, Stars, Street

I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a dignified way. They might have been killers in Vietnam, but I'm seeing another side of them, and looking at images of the the American soldiers, also the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong - I never saw an enemy.

Cong, Men, Photography, Saw, Seeing, War

There is just something about the common being. My education pretty much came from the streets, just connecting with people, different cultures. I gained the wealth just engaging at that level. I'm still like that. I continue to document everyday people versus the stars.

Connecting, Education, Everyday, People, Stars, Versus

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