Una Mirada Positiva - Roberto Marmolejo - English

Famed South African photographer Gideon Mendel spearheaded MAKE ART STOP AIDS' Una Mirada Positiva, which showcases the lives of fourteen people, all citizens of Mexico, living with HIV/AIDS. Mendel, one of the foremost chroniclers of the global AIDS epidemic, contributed portraits of all the participants and directed the project. He worked alongside Alejandro Brito Lemus, an accomplished AIDS activist, writer, and director of Letra S, a community-based organization that focuses on AIDS, culture, and everyday life in Mexicos capital.

Together they organized, interviewed, and trained prospective individuals in a June 2008 workshop. The goal was to demonstrate how HIV-positive stories are changing in this corner of Latin America, where many lives have been prolonged by advanced drug therapies and where oppressive stigma is maybe, just maybe, beginning to lift.

Facing Gideon Mendels camera, and picking up their own, the participants revealed themselves as strong men and women, as creative forces, and as agents for change.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• activism
• HIV
• AIDS
• photography
• Gideon Mendel
• stigma
• art
• Mexico City

[Minotaure1979]

Good job ! :)