As a photographer, my ultimate purpose is to capture humanity’s most precious moments – those fleeting occasions when our fragile, flawed souls are transformed by love, sorrow, compassion, joy, forgiveness and honesty. In search of these revelations, I have travelled to the richest cities and poorest ghettos around the world, documenting the height and depth of human behavior.

My work reveals the wonder of an innocent youth, the compassion of a loving mother, and the tragedy of a child burdened by poverty. Sometimes beauty and tragedy collide; at other times, the two dynamics almost become almost indistinguishable from one another...