Book Description
In our world today, there are forty million people living with HIV/AIDS - forty million stories of hardship, pain, and anger - but also of courage and resilience. PANDEMIC: Facing AIDS brings us more than 200 stirring and groundbreaking images from around the world, in an emotional survey of the global epidemic. Featuring work by over one hundred award-winning, international photographers and artists. PANDEMIC captures the diversity of approaches to this topic over the past twenty years. The work gathered here has been used to document and to educate, to agitate and to protest, to salute friends lost and to mourn the deaths of family and strangers alike. A comprehensive survey of photographic responses to HIV/AIDS, PANDEMIC: Facing AIDS superbly captures the stunning complexity of the pandemic and conveys the despair, rage, heroism, and, ultimately, hope, that the photographic community has mustered to face the AIDS pandemic. Their legacy is a call to action and a challenge to each of us: toward a world without AIDS. The international traveling exhibition which opened at the Museu d'Art Contemporanie de Barcelona (MACBA) as part of the XIV International AIDS Conference, is travelling through 2005 to Pretoria, South Africa, The U.N., Moscow, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok, Atlanta, and other venues.
Pandemic: Facing AIDS Project supporters: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Home Box Office; The AOL Time Warner Foundation; Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS); M-A-C AIDS FUND and M-A-C Cosmetics; The Elton John AIDS Foundation; The Pfizer Foundation; Doctors of the World-USA; Brazilian Ministry of Health; Levi Strauss Foundation; The Red Ribbon Foundation; The Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation; American Foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR); Firelight Foundation; The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation; The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute; Warner Music Group.
