Hope's Voice
 
A collective portrait for Hope's Voice HIV Awareness campaign, 2006
 
Super-8mm/DV   10 minutes   silent   b/w   2006
 

 
Hope's Voice is a Super-8mm portrait of the Hope's Voice campaign members during a photo shoot in Brooklyn and Harlem in the summer of 2006. The photo shoot doubled up as a fashion shoot to promote the organisation's new campaign, Does HIV Look Like Me? which hit the road shortly afterwards.

Hope's Voice is an organization composed of young people living with HIV and Aids. Dedicated to education and prevention, Hope's Voice carries out an intensive campaign in campuses and public venues across the US. Realising that serious change is needed if the epidemic is to be brought to a halt, Hope's Voice has given itself the mission of raising awareness about the disease in the United States, most particularly among young people.

Does HIV Look Like Me?
This campaign is not solely designed to educate the general public; it also reassures young people living with HIV and AIDS that they are not alone. With the epidemic reaching its 25th year, Hope's Voice feels that young people living with HIV and AIDS are crucial to the debate. The fear-based campaigns of the past have created an unecessary stigma; Hope's Voice intends to counteract stigma with the realities of living with HIV and AIDS in the 21st century.

For more information about Hope's Voice see www.hopesvoice.org

Sponsored by Robert Vieira at A1 Film Labs, New York and Steve Garfinkel at Kodak, New York.
 
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