11.25.2010

KRISANNE JOHNSON: Swaziland

from the series I Love You Real Fast
Photograph (c) Krisanne Johnson /All Rights Reserved

from the series I Love You Real Fast
Photograph (c) Krisanne Johnson /All Rights Reserved

from the series I Love You Real Fast
Photograph (c) Krisanne Johnson /All Rights Reserved

from the series I Love You Real Fast
Photograph (c) Krisanne Johnson /All Rights Reserved

"Coming of age for Swazi girls is tough. A tiny African kingdom of 1 million, Swaziland reports the highest percentage of HIV positive people in the world, with the hardest hit being women aged 15-29."

I Love You Real Fast by Krisanne Johnson, is a photography project documenting the coming of age rites of young women amid the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Swaziland. PLAY THE VIDEO
produced by Magnum in Motion
The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund
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2012 Update:
Krisanne Johnson Exhibition at the
2012 International Festival of PhotoJournalism, Perpignan


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

amazing images-so sad, so beautiful, so alive, so fleeting.