Mary Berridge and River Huston (1996): A Positive Life: Portraits of Women Living with HIV, 1996-1999

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2.0 Linear Feet

Scope and content:

Twenty-two chromogenic color photographs from the project A Positive Life: Portraits of Women Living with HIV, a collaboration between photographer Mary Berridge and writer River Huston to photograph and interview women in the North Carolina Triangle region (Durham, Raleigh, Chapel Hill) who are living with HIV/AIDS. The first five prints were published in the photobook by the same name. The project received the 1996 Lange-Taylor Prize, awarded by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. The interviews are not included in the archive.

Most of the 22 prints are captioned on the back.

Biographical / historical:

Mary Berridge is an author and documentary photographer based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she is working on a book about autism and neurodiversity. She is deeply involved in community work to support and lobby for children with special needs. Berridge's photographs have been exhibited in many galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

For their project on women with HIV/AIDS, Berridge and her writing partner River Huston were awarded the 1996 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Berridge's photographs from this project were exhibited in 1999 at the Center for Documentary Studies.

[Source: Adapted from photographer's website, viewed October 2019]

Physical facet:

22 photographic prints

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