"And we have reason to hope. The forces of destruction seem great, but against them we have our power to choose, our human will and imagination, our courage, our passion, our willingness to act and love. And we are not, in truth, strangers to this world. We are part of the circle.
When we plant, when we weave, when we write, when we give birth, when we organize, when we heal, when we run through the park while the redwoods sweat mist, when we do what we're afraid to do, we are not separate. We are of the world and of each other, and the power within us is a great, if not an invincible power. Though we can be hurt, we can heal; though each one of us can be destroyed, within us is the power of renewal.
And there is still time to choose that power."
Starhawk
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contributors' biographies
John Isaac
Perhaps the most revealing images of John Isaac's work are the
photographs he does not take. Whenever there is the slightest question
of trespassing upon an individual's dignity, he puts his camera away.
Once, in Rwanda, he even resigned his career of fifteen years,
devastated by the inhumanity he was witnessing. Only after months of
self-examination did he return to photography.
John grew up in a small village near the town of Tiruchchirappalli, in
southern India. "My mother raised us by herself," he told us. "One of
the most important lessons she taught me was never to take away a
person's dignity." What prescient advice to a man who was to become the
chief photographer of the United Nations, who now has been on assignment
to over seventy countries.
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