Brighton and London photography exhibitions highlight the Alliance's work
29 January 2008
To mark World AIDS Day 2007, the Alliance secretariat organised a photography exhibition in Brighton called Communities for Life! which showed some of the extraordinary things that ordinary people are doing to respond to HIV around the world.
The exhibition was held outdoors in a public square in Brighton, UK (where the Alliance’s secretariat is based). It was also available online at www.aidsalliance.org/exhibition.
The exhibition inspired people to play a part and respond to HIV – by supporting communities to respond to HIV, and by writing to the UK Prime Minister to ask that he keeps his promises and provides the money and leadership to stop HIV-related deaths and achieve universal access.
Photos of the Alliance’s work also appeared in a World AIDS Day exhibition in London by award-winning photographer Nell Freeman. Nell was inspired to hold the exhibition, ‘The ocean is made of many drops’, after visits to the Alliance’s work over the past year.
The exhibition featured a mix of photographs and interviews with people putting innovative local solutions to HIV into practice in Zambia, Madagascar, Morocco and Malawi. The photographs and text were featured in 3.7 metre-high arches at the Gymnasium in London, directly opposite the re-designed St Pancras and Eurostar railway terminals.
“This year marked 20 years of World AIDS Day,” said Nell “and while huge numbers of people are still being infected with HIV, I wanted to show the resourcefulness of people in coming up with their own, local solutions.”
