Magnum Photos and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria have teamed up in a historic partnership to chronicle the effect free antiretroviral treatment is having on AIDS patients across the world. The resulting traveling photo exhibition, Access to Life, is now making a stop at Berlin’s Congress Center.
In 2007, the Global Fund initiated a joint project with Magnum Photos to graphically document the positive impact that free antiretroviral drug treatment is having on the lives of millions of AIDS patients around the world. The photographic cooperative Magnum Photos sent an international team of eight noted photographers to nine countries to document the transformative effects of treatment on more than 30 individuals and their families. In India, Haiti, Mali, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland and Vietnam, the photographers created visual chronicles that encompassed their subjects’ lives both before and after drug treatments. The resulting exhibition is a powerful document of the strong spirit of each patient, of the life-changing impact of the drugs and of the crucial benefit of international funding.
Berliner Congress Center, Alexanderstraβe 11, 10178 Berlin. Through 29. Juli, 2010, from 12-6 PM
