'Through Positive Eyes,' an ambitious photo-storytelling project spanning 10 years, is on view at UCLA's Fowler Museum for World AIDS Day.
He was diagnosed at age 19, but about three years passed before he wrote an anonymous piece about his experience for a North Carolina zine. He presented his art project, a series of embroidered jockstraps and underwear referencing HIV, at a show anonymously. And in 2016, Papapitsios performed at the underground Chicago event Queer, Ill + Okay while wearing a mask.
Then they entered the Banishing Stigma Gallery, where several members of the Los Angeles collective of “Through Positive Eyes” shared personal stories. Stigma is the through-line connecting the experiences of each participant, said Gere, who referred to himself as an HIV-negative ally. “That’s why we ultimately, in building this exhibition, wanted to think about the worst part of stigma but also how it is we can overcome it.”
Gere contacted Mendel about chronicling HIV around L.A., and a prototype of “Through Positive Eyes” was born. “This idea of not an outsider taking photographs, but rather a person living with HIV having his or her own camera, and learning how to use it and getting a lot of support so they could tell their own stories,” Gere said.
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