Justine Barbe

Week 8

Edo Zollo photographs people with HIV

Like many people, the photographer Edo Zollo knew the fear of HIV, after a non-protected sexual relation. This experience led-up him to work on this subject. He photographed in United-Kingdom 30 sick people.

The Edo Zollo’s objective is to disconcert the clichés that these persons suffer. Because the illness isn’t the only responsible of these persons’ complicated lives. There are also the others’ judgments, which stigmatize and reject.

After 30 years, the virus infects and kills still millions people. Though, it remains a taboo in our societies.

Edo Zollo had difficulties to find witnesses. Many persons refused when they knew that the photographs would be an exhibition’s object. But the photographer continued his researches and he found 30 subjects.

For him, it was a mean to leave these persons express themselves freely about their feels in front of the virus and about their lives, the time of a meet and a photograph.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/nov/25/positive-outlook-portraits-people-hiv

Exhibition at the Reading Room Gallery, in Soho, at New York, until January 2013.

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