Access to Life Exhibit visiting Seoul

In 2007, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria initiated a joint project with Magnum Photos to document the impact of antiretroviral treatment on the lives of people living with HIV around the world.

Through the collaboration with Magnum Photos, the Global Fund harnessed the talents of some of the best photographers in the world to capture the complex changes that take place when people who are faced with death suddenly get a new chance at life. An international team of eight noted photographers travelled to nine countries to document the transformative effects that AIDS treatment has had on 33 individuals and their families.

In India, Haiti, Mali, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, and Viet Nam, the photographers created visual chronicles that encompassed their subjects’ lives both before and after the start of treatment. Access to Life is a powerful testament to the strength and spirit of each person, the care and commitment of those around them, and the life-changing impact of treatment for AIDS, which is made available thanks to international funding.

The Access to Life exhibit is now visiting Seoul, Republic of Korea from the 23rd of December 2011 until the 2nd of March 2012 at the Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Art Center.  

The opening of the exhibit on the 22nd of December 2011 was attended by the Jun Byung-Yool, Director of CDC and the Executive Director of the Global Fund, Professor Michel Kazatchkine.