General News, 1st prize
Frank Fournier
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01 January, 1990
A mother weeps outside the room where her child is dying of AIDS in the Victor Babès Hospital in Bucharest.
In Ceaucescu's Romania, procreation was stimulated and abortion and birth control forbidden. Unwanted babies often ended up in orphanages where, for want of a better method, they received blood transfusions to build them up.
Frank Fournier
Frank Fournier (Saint-Sever, France, 1948) completed several years of medical training before he decided to become a professional photographer. In 1975, he moved to New York City...
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