Part 1: HIV/AIDS in Cambodia: Powerful images provoking emotion

"The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity -- between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?"

                                                 Kofi Annan

We have decided here at NGOinsider.com to let our first article speak for itself. With the much appreciated help of Zoriah and David Belluz, two established independent photojournalists, we aim to bring you a three part article allowing the photographs and the photographers to speak for themselves.

Without doubt these are powerful images. Zoriah and David have provided captions for each of their photographs. Their personal understanding of their photography highlights the images from their perspectives. We encourage you as a reader to provide feedback regarding the emotions that these photographs provoke. In the third part of the article we will share with you our emotions that these images elicited. We look forward to hearing your comments about the images and the captions behind the images.

Many thanks to

Zoriah Miller

www.zoriah.com

www.zoriah.net

All images below are subject to copyright and published with permission of the photographer and should not be republished without their express permission.

''A woman is pushed outside of her room and into the sunlight moments before dying in an AIDS hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.  Watching the conditions that many AIDS patients suffer through in developing countries is close to unbearable.''

''An AIDS patient covers his face with a mask while waiting outside of a hospital for treatment. Many hospitals work on a lottery system and patients must come early and wait many hours, and up to two weeks to be seen by a doctor.  Many die during the wait or just give up and return home.''

''A prostitute suffering from AIDS and dementia breaks down crying in a treatment center in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Young women are often forced into prostitution due to poverty but are not educated enough to realize the price that they will end up paying in the end.''

''A man's hand rests on plastic sheeting in an AIDS treatment ward of a hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.  Patients often lack even basic comforts in most hospitals in Cambodia."



Please take a moment to see Zoriah's website: www.zoriah.com. His work really does speak for itself and we are privileged for his kindness in allowing us to place his work on our site

In Part two we will bring to you David Belluz's photography and insight into HIV/AIDS in Cambodia.