On the heels of the announcement of his latest project on TB, Nachtwey was a guest editor on YouTube.
Nachtwey has selected compelling examples from other YouTube users that exhibit the power of film to relate a story and spread the word.
To my surprise, my slideshow on HIV in rural America was one of the videos selected.
These YouTube users — by turning their cameras on subjects like the conflict in Africa, the human rights violations in Myanmar, and the HIV crisis in rural America — are following Nachtwey’s lead and, ultimately, are changing the world through the force of their efforts and film-making expertise.
The project completed in Spring 2007 was my first multimedia project. HIV/AIDS has been a subject I focus a lot of my efforts on and the stories of four people with HIV in rural Ohio started my series in the US.


Tim Gruber and Jenn Ackerman use both photography and video to tell stories for editorial and commercial clients.