Lives in Focus: A lens on life in the margins
Using video, audio and photographs, Lives in Focus aims to present the voices of those rarely given much space or time in traditional news outlets. The inaugural effort focuses on the impact of India's recent patent law on the treatment of the country's HIV+ population.
Lives in Focus documents the lives of families struggling to buy anti-retro viral drugs to keep a family member healthy; the challenges that stigmatized AIDS patients face in trying to earn enough money to buy the lifesaving treatment. These people's lives are presented in a multimedia Weblog format.
The producers, Sandeep Junnarkar and Srinivas Kuruganti, have extensive journalism experience. Sandeep Junnarkar is an award-winning
journalist and journalism professor who often writes for the New York
Times. Srinivas Kuruganti is a photographer who has chronicled the
lives of sex workers, coal miners and eunuchs in India. His work has
been featured in the New York Times and the Village Voice.
The project was reported in June and July 2005 in India. The producers have nearly 13 hours of video and audio, and over 1,500 photographs. They plan to update the site with this material twice a week.
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