Biography:
As a documentary photographer for over 25 years, my point of view has been to work slowly when it is possible. The domestic landscape of America has been my interest for the past two decades. Today I continue to work within the social documentary...
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Children in Distress-Kitwe (CINDI) is currently managing to support approximately 14,000 orphaned children, ages 0-20. Here, CINDI has come to feed these orhpans in Kwacha Township. Because of privacy issues, children cannot be made to to take HIV tests, making it difficult to determine their needs. There are 88 orphans being fed once a week. They are between the ages of 2 and 7. The children are happy to be with one another.7.03
Street kids sniffing glue. They are AIDS orphans. No country in the world has a higher proportion of its children orphaned than Zambia. In 2001, an estimated 17.6% of Zambian children had lost one or both parents primarily because of AIDS. According to figures from the United Nation and the US Agency for International Development, the Zambian government now estimates that there are 600,000 to 700,000 orphans: children under 15 who have lost at least one parent, and there will be nearly one million by 2010. The number is expected to keep growing until 2020. The long-term social, criminal justice, and economic implications of the phenomenon are incalculable.Kitwe, Zambia 8.03
Kamfinsa PrisonIn 1999, a Human Rights Watch report complained about crowding in Zambian prsions and jails that led to the spread of respiratory illnesses and other diseases.Kitwe, Zambia 7.03Kitwe, Zambia 7.03
The Luangwa Support Group visit Workson Wecksiam, 35 yrs. He is dying from AIDS and is being cared for my his mother, Ruth Nakazwe, 59 yrs. He has only been taking vitamins and antibiotics to treat his disease.8.03
Kamfinsa Prison. A medium security prison holding a 1000 prisoners. Here 8 inmates living in one cell, they maximum-security prisoners so they are locked down at 4pm until the next morning. They must use a bucket to relieve themselves. There is a major problem of sodomy in the prison, which is how many of the prisoners who get AIDS acquire the virus, but also by sharing of razor blades and toothbrushes. Many of the inmates are concerned whether they have the virus. Kitwe, Zambia
Older prostitutes, average age 17 yrs., warn the young street girls about the dangers of becoming a prostitute and acquiring HIV/AIDS. In 2001, an estimated 17.6% of Zambian children had lost one or both parents primarily because of AIDS. According to figures from the United Nation and the US Agency for International Development, the Zambian government now estimates that there are 600,000 to 700,000 orphans: children under 15 who have lost at least one parent, and there will be nearly one million by 2010. The number is expected to keep growing until 2020. The long-term social, criminal justice, and economic implications of the phenomenon are incalculable.Kitwe, Zambia 8.03
Prostitutes getting ready to go work.According to figures from the United Nation and the US Agency for International Development, the Zambian government now estimates that there are 600,000 to 700,000 orphans: children under 15 who have lost at least one parent, and there will be nearly one million by 2010. The number is expected to keep growing until 2020. The long-term social, criminal justice, and economic implications of the phenomenon are incalculable.Kitwe, Zambia 8.03
Kwacha Township, Kitwe, ZambiaMary Chisulo, 10 yrs. Suffering from Tuberculosis and HIV. One of the 65,000 orphans, who is being helped by Children in Distress (CINDI).7.03