June 2012
“Early on, I asked David if he minded me taking pictures, and he said, ‘That’s fine, as long as it’s not for personal profit.’ To this day I don’t take any money for the picture. But David was an activist, and he wanted to get the word out there about how devastating AIDS was to families and communities. Honestly, I think he was a lot more in tune with how important these photos might become.”
—Therese Frare on her (now famous) photo of a young AIDS sufferer surrounded by anguished family members as he took his last breaths.
