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LIFE INTERRUPTED - A NEW EXHIBITION ON HIV/AIDS BY DON MCCULLIN
On
Friday 26 November 2004 the international development agency, Christian
Aid, launches a new photographic exhibition on HIV/AIDS in Africa
by one of the world’s leading photojournalists, Don McCullin.
Over
the past four decades McCullin has recorded iconic images that define
historical moments of conflict and change. Life Interrupted is his
second exhibition on HIV/AIDS in Africa in association with Christian
Aid.
The
exhibition, which opens at the County Hall Gallery on London’s
South Bank, and will tour the UK throughout 2005, looks at the impact
anti-retroviral treatment (ART) has made on the lives of people
living with HIV in Zambia and South Africa. The drugs are free in
South Africa but cost an average £6 a month in Zambia, which
puts them out of reach of most HIV positive people.
McCullin
first visited Zambia, South Africa and Botswana in 2000 and documented
the lives of people living in desperate poverty who had been affected
by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. These photographs were exhibited in Cold
Heaven, which opened at the Whitechapel Gallery in May 2001, and
toured nationally and internationally.
In
April 2004 McCullin returned to Zambia and South Africa to record
the changes the introduction of ART had brought to these impoverished
countries. He retraced his steps and experienced a sense of hope
his previous journey had denied him. In South Africa McCullin photographed
two of his previous subjects, now receiving ART and doing well.
However, Zambia told a very different story, the drugs are too costly
for most people, and McCullin found himself photographing the orphans
of Teresa, a young woman who had appeared in the first exhibition.
These
new photographs are intensely personal and show McCullin’s
understanding of the complexity of life in Africa, which has been
dealt the double blow of HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty.
Touring
details and an on-line version of the exhibition will be at www.christianaid.org.uk
from 26 November 2004.
Notes
to editor
The
exhibition in County Hall will be free to the public and open 3
days a week (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) from 26 November 2004
– 10 January 2005.For more information please contact Karen
Hedges on 020 7523 2404 or khedges@christian-aid.org August 2004
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