Category: HIV
Coronavirus Pandemic – Snapshots
Capturing the Coronavirus pandemic in words and images To borrow from Jonathan Larson's "Seasons of Love" [RENT, the musical], I wonder how do we measure a month in a life defined by the Coronavirus? I've never lived through a pandemic. I've been covering HIV and AIDS for almost twenty years, oftentimes through the stories of ...
World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day 2019 World AIDS Day falls on December 1, an important day for me, personally, for a couple of other reasons. And for those reasons, this year's WAD was in particular a tough day for me. But, as they say, "the show must go on." Therefore, I spent WAD 2019 lighting candles, remembering ...
How I Got That Shot: Identity
Identity. WAD 2007. And Also how I met celebrity host, actor and advocate, Ron B.
On B&W Photography
Seeing in Black and White "Throughout the years, many photographers have embraced black-and-white to tell some of the most intense, intriguing, powerful and memorable stories," I wrote in an article about photographer's Bill Bytsura's new book, The AIDS Activist Project. "[...] Award-winning photographer and AIDS activist Kurt Weston [A&U, November, 2005] says black-and-white offers his ...
Summer Highlights
My Summer (so far) Summer is my favorite season, but this summer season has been different, for many reasons. For now let's look at the brighter side: photographed Brooklyn Pride, the only twilight Pride in the city https://www.instagram.com/p/BzJQTa2nEXl/ Attended the launch party of What Is 21st Century Liberation broasheet, event hosted by Visual AIDS Artist, ...
A Brief (#tbt) Interview with Photographer Kurt Weston
A brief #tbt q&a with award-winning, legally blind photographer, and HIV and LGBTQ+ activist Kurt Weston.
Pride Month in Images
Things to do and photograph this Pride Month It's June 2019, and that means it's Pride Month, not only that but this year we celebrate 50 years of Pride. So, Happy Pride! Since this is, still, a photography blog, here are a couple of questions: How do you photograph Pride? What you photograph for Pride? ...
