Upcoming Event: Living Positive
Monday 22 March 2010 - Sunday 28 March 2010
Manchester
Living Positive has been created through a partnership between Artist Charlotte Barnes and the Manchester based charity Body Positive North West (BPNW).
Charlotte has been running photography workshops at BPNW, teaching basic photography skills to support individuals to capture and document how HIV has and does affect their lives. They have also been creating images that contain a message they would like to give to the world about HIV. To further extend her reach Charlotte and staff from BPNW have visited individuals in their own homes.
Website www.livingpositive.co.uk
The website has been designed to allow individuals to take part in the project online. You can simply read the brief and upload your image. It extends further our reach to people. WE TAKING SUBMISSIONS OF IMAGES VIA THE WEBSITE deadline 26th of February 2010.
Exhibition
The exhibition is city wide in Manchester starting the week of the 22nd of March 2010. Prints will be displayed through windows and on the walls of shops, bars etc so that you view the exhibition while going about your everyday life. Images will also be displayed on the City Gateway giant screen at Manchester Piccadilly Train Station. There will also be books containing a selection of the images left around Manchester to be found. You can also view all the images on the Living Positive website gallery page.
Annie Lennox
We are thrilled to announce that Annie Lennox has donated a photograph, with accompanying text, for the exhibition. It will be revealed as part of the city wide exhibition.
Quotes:
“I am HIV positive. In some parts of the world that would inspire fear, anger and violence. In some parts of the United Kingdom it inspires fear, anger and violence. This project was, in part, inspired by many conversations about HIV and invisibility; how some of us who live with HIV were made to feel invisible; how we made ourselves feel invisible. Photography involves exposure and everyone involved in this project has allowed themselves to expose their relationship with HIV – as those who live with or those who are affected by it.
Annie Lennox has, through involvement with Red Hot and Blue in the 80’s; the creation the HIV charity, SING, working to support women and children in Africa; her involvement with TAC; her support of the Stigma Index in December 2009; her ongoing work to promote HIV education, is recognised as a long term supporter of those who, like me, live with and are affected by HIV regardless of where in the world we live.
Sam de Croy
Development & Well Being Manager BPNW
“Becoming HIV has been a long road to drive down. 5 years on and taking pictures has helped me come to terms with it further. The pictures are only a still of my life, but life with HIV goes on.”
Joe
Service User of BPNW who has attended the photographic Workshops
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