notyourdaddy:Gideon Mendel’s The WardMemories from the heart of the Aids crisis shows true love in a
notyourdaddy:Gideon Mendel’s The WardMemories from the heart of the Aids crisis shows true love in a time of terrible tragedy.These heartbreaking and incredibly moving images show the affection and love shown during the height of the Aids crisis. Photographer Gideon Mendel’s project The Ward began in 1993 when he spent a number of weeks on the Charles Bell wards in London’s Middlesex Hospital. All the patients on the ward were dying with the knowledge that there was no cure for the disease. During this time antiretroviral medications were not available and patients on the ward faced the prospect of an early death. -- source link
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