Magnum Photographers to Attend Aperture "Access To Life" Book Signing on April 23

Aperture Gallery in New York will host a book signing for the publication, Access to Life, on Thursday, April 23rd at 7pm. Magnum photographers who may be present for the event include Jonas Bendiksen, Jim Goldberg, Alex Majoli, Steve McCurry, Paolo Pellegrin, Gilles Peress, Eli Reed, and Larry Towell. Aperture will announce which of these photographers will attend prior to the event.

The publisher describes Access to Life as follows:

"For the past twenty-five years, the AIDS pandemic has inflicted excruciating pain upon humanity, having ravaged the lives of millions of people around the world. Over the past few years, however, a quiet global revolution has enabled millions infected by HIV to live healthy lives through the free antiretroviral treatment program initiated by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.

In Access to Life (Aperture, March 2009), eight of the world's leading photojournalists, all members of Magnum Photos, follow thirty individuals in nine countries before, and four months after, they began the antiretroviral treatment, documenting the transformative effect on their bodies, their lives, and the lives of their families..."

Aperture Gallery is located at 547 West 27th Street in New York City (212-505-5555).