Image Number: APN10130
Title: Grave diggers
Path:
african.pictures /
Independent Photographers /
David Larsen
Description: 6/2003 Pietermaritzburg, South Africa,. Members of Pietermaritzburg Christian Fellowship, friends and family take it in turn to fill in the grave of a community heroine. Akhona Nontsasa Mngweba was a light of hope to so many who knew her. Having contracted HIV which then developed into full-blown AIDS, against the tide of community opinion which keeps AIDS a secret, Akhona bravely proclaimed she was HIV positive and worked relentlessly to help others come to terms with the disease. . HIV/AIDS, disease, death, dying, funeral, digging a grave, grave diggers
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections:
David Larsen
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3384 x 2300
Media Id: 98_765
Credit: David Larsen / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Keywords:
ceremony,
black African people,
Africa,
South Africa,
graveyards,
colour image ,
sad,
burial grounds,
Akhona Nontsasa Mngweba,
death,
AIDS activists,
,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No