As part of GCN & HIV Ireland’s LIVING exhibition, we spoke to the faces behind the portraits – meet Luke.
“I’ve been positive for about seven years, so I’ve been kind of like looking for visibility in Dublin for a while and though it’s there in trickles.
“As all HIV positive people presumably carry a lot of baggage. It’s decades long and it doesn’t necessarily belong to me.
“And ironically, I’ve inherited that baggage but I’ve been so lucky that through most of my life as a HIV positive person the message has been slowly getting out there and messages like that are helping to dismantle that baggage that I carry and hopefully dismantle that baggage for other people too.”
You can experience this unique portrayal of people LIVING with HIV in Ireland, until December 17 at CHQ Dublin and find out more in GCN’s December issue 369.
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