Mary Fisher (right) talks with Mary Mider.
Photograph by Dirck Halstead.
"For human power, no set of people
are as extra- ordinary as the caregivers who come, most of them unpaid,
to help us manage our lives when life itself grows fragile and fearful.
They are, collectively, an almost entirely invisible army of compassion."
- Mary Fisher
Editor's Note:
In June of 1997, Mary Fisher, a friend who I had known since she was an advance person in the Ford White House, asked me if I would mind accompanying her on the final leg of a project she had been working on for two years, to photograph AIDS caregivers across the country.
Mary, the mother of two boys, came forward and spoke before the nation during the 1992 Republican National Convention, to proclaim that she, who had come from one of the most priviledged families in the United States, had AIDS.
