Elena Rue Photographs Series, 2005-2006

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As a 2005-2006 academic year Lewis Hine Fellow, Guttman worked with Hope for Children (HFC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, beginning in January 2006. Hope for Children is a local, non-governmental organization that supports young children affected by HIV/AIDS by ensuring they have access to basic services, such as food, shelter, education, and medical care. HFC's seven group homes are the size of a traditional Ethiopian family (six to eight children) and are headed by a group home mother. Once the children are brought together and given everything they need, HFC steps back to allow them to become a family. Rue spent time in each of Hope for Children's group homes during her nine months in Ethiopia, and her photographs provide a sense of the family life within the group homes and give a face to the statistics within the media about HIV/AIDS orphans. All of the photographs were made by Rue in Ethiopia in 2006 for her project "Love after Loss," and the names of the children have been changed to protect their identities.

This collection includes twenty-one color photographs, one of which is a duplicate. There are seventeen 10.5 x 16" images, three 13 x 20" images, and one 15 x 15" image. Captions are taken from text of multimedia presentation.

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