Q+A: AIDS in Odessa with Photographer Andrea Diefenbach
- story THE FADER
The Ukraine has the most new cases of AIDS infection in Europe and is amongst the nations in the world where the disease is spreading most quickly.
Andrea Diefenbach’s series of intimate and personal portraits deliver a remarkable and poignant photographic study of the epidemic there.
Photographer, and regular FADER contributor Krisanne Johnson, whose own long-term work centers on AIDS, both in America (see her work about young African-American women with the disease in The Conundrum from FADER 57) and in Swaziland, spoke with Diefenbach about the project, which has been published as a book, AIDS in Odessa with a corresponding show at ClampArt, New York up now through June 6th.
FADER 57: AIDS in America
- story Matthew Schnipper
- photo Krisanne Johnson
In our current Photo Issue, we feature some of our frequent contributors’ most personal work. Longtime FADER photographer Krisanne Johnson documented the lives of several young African-American women living with HIV and AIDS. We’ve collected many of the photos along with audio commentary by Johnson and one of her subjects, Lolisa Gibson, in this slideshow, and after the jump, you can read Matthew Schnipper’s essay which ran with the photos in the magazine. Next Monday, we will post the next slideshow and feature: Gabriele Stabile’s “Temporary Residence,” focusing on transition motels many refugees must stay in when they first arrive in the United States.
Slideshow: AIDS In America By Krisanne Johnson
- story THE FADER
For our photo issue, Krisanne Johnson spent time in both Mississippi and New York photographing young black women with HIV and AIDS. They are the quickest growing demographic of those positive in the United States. For an extended edit of the photo essay, Johnson and Lolisa Gibson (who is featured in some of the photos) talk about life with AIDS and the stigma and facts surrounding the disease’s rise in our country.
