Heroines & Heroes: Hope, HIV and Africa

Since 2002, photographer Steve Simon has been documenting the AIDS crisis in Africa. He has photographed communities throughout Zambia, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Lesotho, where more than 28,000,000 adults and 1,000,000 children are currently living with HIV. Every day 11,000 more people are infected—at a rate of one person every eight seconds. Simon’s sensitive and gentle portraits capture both the suffering and the astonishing resilience of the people on the front lines of the AIDS pandemic. Montreal born and New York based, Simon has published his work in The New York Times Magazine, Harpers, Macleans and The Globe and Mail.