Misha Friedman photographs tuberculosis patients in Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Russia. Friedman, formerly a logistician for Doctors Without Borders, grapples with the implications:
Most of the people you see here are dead. My images have not really helped them. Maybe they’ll help people in the future. Maybe they’ll help with fund-raising here and there. But to these particular people, they did not help. So that part is harder, being kind of just a photographer.
Polina, above, was brought to a St. Petersburg hospital with tuberculosis, hepatitis C and HIV.
(Photo courtesy of the artist and Cosmos)
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