Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.
Luis Carle (b. 1962) is a New York-based Puerto Rican photographer who moved to New York City in the 1980s to study photography at Parsons School of Design and pursue his art. Since then, his work has been exhibited in galleries and museums such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), El Museo del Barrio, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in San Juan, the Caribbean Museum in St. Croix, The Hague Arts Center in the Netherlands, and the Sarkowsky Gallery in St Petersburg, Russia. In 2014, Carle’s work became part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.
Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé, Ph.D is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature ad Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute at Fordham University.