http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/contact_sheet/12062 Tuberculosis, commonly refered to as TB, is often thought to be a "disease of the pastâ€*. But it has re-emerged as a global threat, with one third of the worlds' population latently infected. TB is the leading killer of people with HIV: one is able to live with HIV, but is dying from TB. Anyone can get TB, but the disease is strongly linked to poverty and malnutrition. Even if the medication exists in certain places, people have to get to the medication, or the medication has to get to them. Someone dies of TB in the world every 18 seconds. I travelled to Pieri, South-Sudan, to photograph a small MSF field clinic and its TB patients. The clinic is situated in the remote Jonglei area and can be reached by air only. TB+ is meant to give a human face to the disease Tuberculosis. While staying at the clinic for about 2 weeks, walking daily about Pieri and its surroundings, I asked myself frequently: Who are these people, who are these patients? How has TB affected their lives? How do they normally live if healthy? Therefore I mixed 'classical' portraits of the patients with images of their immediate surroundings: the village life, the vast landscape they live in, and images of fellow Nuer tribesmen with their cattle. http://www.lightstalkers.org en-us http://images.lightstalkers.org/avatars/28184/Photobooth_1_small.jpg http://www.lightstalkers.org/Rosa Verhoeve <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/532635/Slide1_small.jpg' /><br />slide nr. TB+01 <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532635'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532635 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:26:16 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532635 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/532635/Slide1_small.jpg' /><br />slide nr. TB+01 <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532635'>view full-size image</a> Rosa Verhoeve <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1038023/Slide64_small.jpg' /><br />Slide TB+02<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1038023'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1038023 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:42:59 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1038023 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1038023/Slide64_small.jpg' /><br />Slide TB+02<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1038023'>view full-size image</a> Rosa Verhoeve <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/532641/Slide3_small.jpg' /><br />Slide nr. TB+03<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532641'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532641 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:42:41 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532641 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/532641/Slide3_small.jpg' /><br />Slide nr. TB+03<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532641'>view full-size image</a> Rosa Verhoeve <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/532644/Slide4_small.jpg' /><br />Slide nr. TB+04<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532644'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532644 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:43:26 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532644 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/532644/Slide4_small.jpg' /><br />Slide nr. TB+04<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532644'>view full-size image</a> Rosa Verhoeve <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/719718/TB_07_small.jpg' /><br />Slide nr. TB+05<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719718'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719718 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:43:46 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719718 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/719718/TB_07_small.jpg' /><br />Slide nr. TB+05<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719718'>view full-size image</a> Rosa Verhoeve <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/719712/TB_04_small.jpg' /><br />slide nr. TB+06<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719712'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719712 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:44:16 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719712 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/719712/TB_04_small.jpg' /><br />slide nr. TB+06<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719712'>view full-size image</a> Rosa Verhoeve <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/532665/Slide11_small.jpg' /><br />Slide nr. TB+07<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532665'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532665 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:44:25 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532665 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/532665/Slide11_small.jpg' /><br />Slide nr. TB+07<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532665'>view full-size image</a> Rosa Verhoeve <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/719715/TB_06_small.jpg' /><br />slide nr. TB+08<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719715'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719715 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:59:55 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719715 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/719715/TB_06_small.jpg' /><br />slide nr. TB+08<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719715'>view full-size image</a> Rosa Verhoeve <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/719721/TB_08_small.jpg' /><br />Slide nr. TB+09<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719721'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719721 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:00:13 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719721 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/719721/TB_08_small.jpg' /><br />Slide nr. TB+09<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/719721'>view full-size image</a> Rosa Verhoeve <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/532686/Slide18_small.jpg' /><br />Slide nr. TB+10<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532686'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532686 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:57:04 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532686 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/532686/Slide18_small.jpg' /><br />Slide nr. TB+10<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532686'>view full-size image</a> Rosa Verhoeve <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/532674/Slide14_small.jpg' /><br />Slide nr. TB+11 <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532674'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532674 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:57:04 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532674 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/532674/Slide14_small.jpg' /><br />Slide nr. TB+11 <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/532674'>view full-size image</a> Rosa Verhoeve