Category: Women

  • Through Positive Eyes

    Through Positive Eyes

    Book and Exhibition I have worked on this project with Gideon Mendel and Prof. David Gere since its inception in 2007. Through Positive Eyes features insider photography by people living with HIV and AIDS. Over the past decade, the project has grown, one city per year, to become ambitiously international in scope, now encompassing ten…

  • Protected: Re-enacting history

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  • Through Positive Eyes – Durban 3

    Through Positive Eyes – Durban 3

    Thulile (See here for the background to this project) Thulile, Simiso and Jennifer are currently presenting their work at the Durban Art Gallery as part of the Through Positive Eyes show, coinciding with the International AIDS Conference. The show has been designed by Stan Pressner and Carol Brown to enable the participants to tell their stories…

  • Through Positive Eyes – Durban 2

    Through Positive Eyes – Durban 2

    Elizabeth (See previous post for the background to this project) Elizabeth is currently presenting her work at the Durban Art Gallery as part of the Through Positive Eyes show, coinciding with the International AIDS Conference. The show has been designed by Stan Pressner to enable the participants to tell their stories and interact with projections…

  • Through Positive Eyes – Durban

    Through Positive Eyes – Durban

    Photo by Silungile I’m just back from working on the final chapter of this international arts and advocacy project, in which HIV+ve participants photograph their lives to combat stigma. I teach photography, and co-edit the work with the participants, alongside Gideon Mendel and Prof. David Gere’s team from the Art and Global Health Centre at…

  • Work, Climate and Donkeys

    Work, Climate and Donkeys

    For donkeys as well as people, the brick kilns in India are dangerous and unhealthy places to work – but unemployment is worse.   At the RAJ kiln near Agra, accommodation for donkeys and their owners lies empty. Unseasonal rains have waterlogged the brick kilns and there’s no work for them here. Back in the…

  • Home Lives of the Donkey People

    Home Lives of the Donkey People

    Donkey owners – problem or solution? Itinerant donkey owners working in Gujarat’s brick kilns spend 24 hours a day with their donkeys. They live, work, play and abide together. The donkeys’ welfare is entirely in the people’s hands. So who are they, and how do they live alongside their animals? I hope these photographs from…

  • Caesarian

    Caesarian

    Seven people go into a room and eight people come out. Anaesthetists don’t just work with unconscious patients. This expectant mother is being guided through a magic trick. Sitting beside her, the anaesthetist asks questions, tells her what is happening, and what she can expect to feel and hear. His team help bridge the gap between her…

  • Anaesthetists

    Anaesthetists

    Consciousness is a tricky subject, debated by philosophers and scientists for hundreds of years. But anaesthetists turn it on and off and otherwise manipulate it every day. Photographing people losing consciousness is an odd thing. Like a benign and reversible death. One moment they’re there talking as I snap away and the next minute they’re…

  • Donkey Cam

    Donkey Cam

    Donkeys have a blind spot immediately in front of them, but can see right round to their hind legs – though not behind their head. Simply mounting a wide angle camera on a donkey’s head won’t tell us how a donkey really ‘sees’ the world. But it can tell us something about its working life.…

  • Through Positive Eyes Haiti

    Through Positive Eyes Haiti

    Last December I returned from helping to run the Haiti chapter of this international arts and advocacy project, in which HIV+ve participants photograph their lives. I teach photography and co-edit the work with the participants, alongside Gideon Mendel. This is the eighth city the project has worked in to challenge the stigma of HIV. Here’s a…

  • Animal traction

    Animal traction

    In the UK animal traction and haulage are things of the past – relegated to the heritage industry. In India draft animals play a key role in the modern economy. Aside from their use in agriculture, donkeys and mules are essential to the construction industry. The livelihoods of many thousands of marginalised families are reliant…