Human Photography: The Julie Project

This NY Times article spotlights photographer Darcy Padilla. Padilla recently won the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for her work documenting the life (and recent death) of Julie Baird, a young woman she encountered in 1993 while photographing doctors and social workers at San Francisco AIDS clinic. The Julie Project is an amazing piece of long term photojournalism. This work is the power of photography: it is a moving documentation of the human struggle, of our struggle to be human. It is hard going but worth going through. I look forward to tomorrow’s update to the project.

Edit: It looks like that update has been pushed back to the first of November.

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