“Most of the people you see here are dead. My images have not really helped them. Maybe they’ll help people in the future. Maybe they’ll help with fund-raising here and there. But to these particular people, they did not help.” — Misha Friedman, New York Times. Saving Lives or Photographing Them?
The New York Times Lens Blog profiles Misha Friedman, a photographer who left his adminitrative job with Doctors Without Borders in order to document tuberculosis in the former Soviet Union.
Image: A Russian woman with tuberculosis, hepatitis C and HIV at a St. Petersburg hospital, by Misha Friedman via the New York Times.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
