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Overview
To form a foundation for the Images to Stop TB campaign Eli Lilly commissioned a photographer in each country with the highest prevalence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extremely drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (namely South Africa, Russia, China and India) to produce a series of 50 images to profile the state of MDR and XDR-TB in their country. Creative freedom was given to the photographer to document anything and in any style they felt was best suited to express what was happening in their country.
After spending four years documenting TB, and shortly after an XDR-TB outbreak that had been overly sensationalised by the media and created immense misunderstanding and stigma around XDR-TB, Schumann decided to adopt a traditional documentary style to present the state of TB in South Africa as accurately as possible. Within the required 50 images he expressed the seriousness of drug resistance, the causes, facts, general attitudes around it, co-infection with HIV, what is being done to combat TB, recent developments, and most importantly the hope at the end of the tunnel.
This work was launched at the Stop TB Forum in Rio de Janeiro 2009, and also toured around South Africa as an awareness campaign leading up to World TB Day 2009