Contact Press Images
01 September, 1986
Ken Meeks' (45) skin is marked with lesions caused by AIDS-related Kaposi's Sarcoma. Kenneth Meeks, a member of the board of directors of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, an organisation that assisted AIDS patients, would die several days after this photograph was taken.
Alon Reininger
Alon Reininger (Tel Aviv, Israel, 1947) began his career covering the 1973 Yom Kippur War for UPI. One of the original members of Contact Press Images in 1976, he has followed th...
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