features - issue 75

LIFE AND DEATH FRAMED

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without showing Africans just as poverty-stricken victims.
"I spend a lot of time in these situations. I don't

just go in and snap away at people dying or at funerals. I get to know the families, their struggles and their lives.
"People are willing to share their grief because I'm grieving with them. My sister is a doctor in a Cape Town squatter camp. Two years ago they saw just a couple of new HIV cases a month, now they're seeing 20 a day.
"My work it's not all gloom and doom," Gideon adds: "I'm amazed by the optimism I see in people in Africa. There're two tales - one of hope and one of despair."

A Broken Landscape: HIV and Aids is published by Network Photographers in association with Action Aid, price £19.95. For more details of the work of Action Aid in Africa, visit: www.actionaid.org


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