ALON REININGER, of Contact Press Images, pioneered photo-documentation of issues affecting people with AIDS, beginning with his earliest work on the subject, in 1981.


PRODUCER & INTERVIEWER: Dirck Halstead

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On how he started to document AIDS
Fear in the gay community
Photographing the first AIDS patients
Contact agency's coverage of AIDS
"People seemed to shrug it off..."