Part 3: HIV/AIDS in Cambodia: Powerful images provoke emotion

"Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together."

Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS

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Photographer: Zoriah Miller

www.zoriah.com

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Photographer: David Belluz

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Without doubt powerful images provoke emotion. The two previous articles highlight how powerful and captivating a photograph can be. From viewing the images from the two previous articles time and time again we were confronted with the true meanings of words such as: Fragile, helpless, sadness, surrender, sincere, and afraid.

Although the aim behind the photographs is to be hard hitting, and this they are, in that sense they are captivating. They also convey a deeper message: a portrayal that life in poorer countries is at times expendable. People are left to die. People are ostracized from society. Support systems lack the holistic approach needed to care for the victims' well being. We leave you with a contrasting video of a HIV victim in the western world; it demonstrates that support and acceptance provide even the most isolated with a very powerful tool. Hope.


''Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.''

- Erik H. Erikson

Many thanks to Zoriah and David Belluz whose photographs and helpfulness made this article possible. Please take the time to look at their websites. They are photographers who go that extra mile to allow the world to understand topics in a different light, a creative, hard-hitting, emotional light.

A further thanks for the touching videos created by the Global Health Foundation and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Powerful images provoke emotion

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