Agence Vu
01 January, 1994
Father Antonio, an Italian priest, runs a home in Rakai, Uganda, for orphans who have been abandoned by their families—often because they are disabled. Many of the children have lost their parents as a result of AIDS, making them likely carriers of the HIV virus.
Paolo Pellegrin
Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome, Italy. He studied architecture at Sapienza UniversitĂ di Roma, before moving on to photography at the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia, a...
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