Tanya has the unenviable job of letting people know the results of their HIV tests. This is the room where she tells them, called the ‘Trust Room’. Because of discrimination against people with HIV, people lose their jobs, can be ostracised from society, and even lose access to social services such as healthcare if news…
Irina, Child Virologist, Kiev AIDS Centre. As Irina told the story, she was clearly distressed, and she cried. It felt like an intrusion to take her picture, I felt bad about it, but nevertheless I thought it was important to do so. To take the portrait was an intrusion, not to take the picture would…
I’e been revisiting the images from “Time Out in Holiday Street”, about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ukraine. When I took them, I wasn’t running a blog and so only showed the images with short captions. But the words of the people I photographed (interviewed by the wonderful Oksana Shved – the dodgy translation however is…
I caught a ride through Feodosiya with a car driven by a burly gentleman, an Afghan war veteran, who took the opportunity to deliver an impassioned and damning invective against one politician after another. A rough precis as follow: “That Preaident Yanukhovich, of course he’s mafia – you know he’s been in prison twice? And…
The kitsch fake Greek temple columns of Arkadia (previous post) are not so grossly inappropriate as they may seem. Feodosiya used to be an ancient Greek city, the trading port at that time called Kaffa, which the Greeks used as a base to trade with the Scythians (those with the crocks of gold under the…
