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In certain countries, AIDS is an epidemic. Central Africa is especially hard hit. In Uganda, more than 10% of the population may have the AIDS virus. Children and adults are affected. Rose, a thirteen year-old school girl, is dying of AIDS. When I took the picture, her father had already died of it, and her mother was dying of it. Rose got AIDS because her mother decided to earn more money by selling her to men as a prostitute. |
| AIDS child (Uganda, 1993) |
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As long as I can remember, I have always wondered how other people live. Even as a child, when I passed by homes I would look in and try to imagine the people who lived there and what they did. As an adult, photography became the tool allowing me to continue that interest. Taking pictures offers me access to people’s homes, lives, and cultures.
Being a National Geographic photographer is a bit like being a navigator. The task is to guide others through unfamiliar areas and chart the human condition as you go. I am keenly aware of my privileged position and how much my work is aided by the long developed trust people have
in National Geographic. That trust is based on over a century of reliable honest reporting and the near-religious motivation of the Society staff to bring its members increased understanding of the world.
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