Title: Every 17 Seconds: A Global Perspective on the AIDS Crisis
Photographer(s): Brian Weil
Writer(s): Simon Watney
Designer(s): Bureau Aperture
Publisher(s): Aperture, New York, U.S.A.
Year: 1992
Print run:
Language(s): English
Pages: 108
Size: 25,5 x 26,5 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition:
Print: South China Printing Co. Ltd, Hong Kong
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: World, 1985-1990
ISBN: 9780893814960
The book’s title echoes the terrifying statistic that one person becomes infected with HIV every 17 seconds, and Weil’s spare text and gritty photographs present a grim mosaic of the pandemic’s progress in Asia, Africa and North America. Black South African mine workers who have been forcibly separated from their wives for months are deported if they test HIV-positive. Infants waste away in American hospitals. In Thailand, 10% of the population may be at risk due to prostitution and heroin addiction. Weil’s bleak portrait underscores the need for widespread preventative action against this insidious virus.
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