When James Nachtwey won the TED Prize last year he made a wish for help in bringing a story to light that he felt was important and underreported. The subject of this story is a new, dangerous type of tuberculosis called Extreme Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, or XDR-TB.
The best presentation of his photos is not on the Time magazine site which published the images. Nor is best shown in at TED or xdrtb.org. The best place to see the images is on The Big Picture at The Boston Globe.
Most striking of the images is the above frame mimicing the iconic Pieta by Michelangelo. It carries on in the tradition of Eugene Smith’s Minamata photo and Alixandra Fazzina’s Afghanistan mother photo. Both are discussed in an earlier post.
Which is your favorite Pieta photo?
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