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Image by Zoriah

Millions of people in Asia suffer from HIV/AIDS, and millions more lives are affected. Mother to child transmission of the disease, usually after the man contracts AIDS from a sex worker and then transmits it to his wife, has produced children infected with the disease numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Families are torn apart and lives are ruined, all by a disease that could be controlled to high degree with simple education as well as proper medicine and medical facilities. One of the primary reasons for families to be thrust into poverty in the developing world is when one member becomes ill, especially if it's the bread winner of the family and they are infected with illnesses like HIV/AIDS.

As a photojournalist it is always difficult to photograph subject matter that you are closely emotionally tied to, yet that emotional tie also allows you a passion for the work and a sense of purpose in documenting it. Photographing people dying from AIDSâ€"the same disease that I lost my father toâ€"has been a personal mission of mine, mainly because I hope to create awareness that may save others from the pain of living with the disease, dying from it or losing a loved one to it.

When you know what it is like for someone to suffer through AIDS in the Western world, watching people suffer through it in the absolute worst of conditions is beyond difficult. To see people sleeping on hospital floors, coated in flies with barely enough energy to open their eyes to look at you, it is hard to bring the camera up to your face and shoot. But this is my job; it is what I have chosen to do and I have done so because I believe in the power of the still image to effect change.

This story was photographed between 2004 and 2005 and re-edited in 2009.

babychic101 with Constance Zimmer




Image by fiercehugs

Fierce Hugs Organic Baby Clothing is reviewed on BabyChic101 featuring actress Constance Zimmer of Entourage and Boston Legal.

Fierce Hugs is worn by many celebrity babies including the children of Sex and the City's Evan Handler, Oscar nominee Jason Reitman, Tori Spelling, Broadway Star Marissa Jaret Winokur, Scott & Renee Baio, Entourage's Constance Zimmer, and many more.

Fierce Hugs has appeared in gift sets for People, X17, Life & Style, Extra! and US Weekly.

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East Timor




Image by Rusty Stewart

The days surrounding the UN transitional elections in East Timor August-Sept 2000. Photgraphed in Suai... East Timor. Located 138 km to the southwest of Dili, the national capital.
Suai was the location of the infamous Suai Church Massacre. It was one of a number of massacres perpetrated by a pro-Indonesia militia in the time of the Indonesian withdrawal of East Timor. At the time of the massacre, several hundred persons had sought refuge in the church. In the incident, three priests Father Dewanto, Father Francisco and Father Hilario were killed. Accounts of the militia and TNI removing the bodies of those killed in the church have now been corroborated with the exhumation in West Timor of 26 bodies alleged to be victims of the killings in Suai church. These bodies were recovered from Oeluli beach, Kobalima district, approximately three kilometers inside West Timor. The exhumations were undertaken at the direction of the Indonesian National Inquiry Commission on East Timor. The forensic expert who accompanied the International Commission of Inquiry examined the bodies and concluded that the remains were of 3 priests, 12 males, 8 females and 3 bodies of undetermined sex. One was a child, two in their teens, six in their teens to mid-20s, twelve were middle-aged and two elderly.


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