A selection of my photographs communicating people living with HIV in the early 2000s has been included in The George Eastman Museum collection. The photographs were one chapter in several that I and other photographers completed for a global project called ‘Positive Lives.’ ‘Positive Lives’ was concerned with educating the public and, telling the stories of those living with the AIDS virus and quelling stigmatisation of being HIV+.

An HIV+ patient at Wat Prabat Nampu. Lopubri, Thailand.

The George Eastmen Museum is located in Rochester, New York, on the estate of George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography and motion picture film. Founded in 1947 as an independent nonprofit institution, it is the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the oldest film archives. The museum holds unparalleled collections—encompassing several million objects—in the fields of photography, cinema, and photographic and cinematographic technology, and photographically illustrated books. The institution is also a longtime leader in film preservation and photographic conservation.