Review
"Simon has produced a collection of images that is simultaneously devastating and ennobling -- It's a stirring, inspiring collection." -- The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Art Critic Gary Michael Dault, Aug 21, 2006
"Some shots are almost unbearable to contemplate in their poignancy. Others are unexpected, heartening snapshots of life under dire circumstances." -- Matthew Halliday, See Magazine, November 30, 2006
"Steve Simon's creates an intimate portrait with elegant, expressive sequencing. He shows us the humanity of people much like ourselves." -- Marianne Fulton, Author, Curator and Photographic Scholar, November 2006-digitaljournalist.org
Product Description
In Heroines & Heroes, Steve Simon's sensitive and gentle photographs illuminate both the suffering and the astonishing resilience of the people on the front lines of the AIDS pandemic. Though HIV prevalence rates and the number of people dying from AIDS are devastating, this book is not about statistics. It is about brave and determined people who persevere to reverse the tide of hopelessness and despair in the fight against AIDS. It is about how we can help. Photographer Steve Simon has been documenting the AIDS crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa, since 2002. Heroines and Heroes is a call to action, a visual milepost on the 25-year chronicle of the HIV-AIDS pandemic, reminding us that where love and determination exist, there is hope.
104 pages-98 Illustrations including 69 in color.
