PHOTOS: Handing Over The Camera To People With HIV
NPR Features UCLA Art & Global Health Center's "Through Positive Eyes" Exhibition
The UCLA Art and Global Health Center teamed up with photographer Gideon Mendel to exhibit photos from their Through Positive Eyes initiative at the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. NPR covers the exhibition, which will travel internationally after its run in Durban.
"Photographer Gideon Mendel had won several prestigious awards for his pictures of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. But in 2007, he decided to hand over the camera to his subjects.
He co-founded an organization called Through Positive Eyes with David Gere from the Art & Global Health Center at UCLA and began teaching basic digital camera skills to people who were HIV positive, then encouraged them to capture images of their own lives. Photographer Crispin Hughes took the lead in teaching the budding photographers. Since 2008, the project has hosted workshops in 10 cities around the world: Mexico City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Bangkok, Port-au-Prince, London and, most recently, Durban, South Africa.
This week, Through Positive Eyes will debut an exhibition at the Durban Art Gallery, featuring 145 photographs. It's the first exhibit to draw from all the workshops. The opening on July 17 coincides with the 21st International AIDS Conference in Durban, which begins the next day."— Kristin Adair, July 16, 2016
Read the full article at the NPR website.