Dying with AIDS/Living with AIDS

“Leslie, a Montreal photographer and AIDS patient has created a visual diary of a man coming to terms with his life and illness. Leslie is a complex individual, and the book documents the way he careens through addictions and high bitchiness to self-kindness healing of the deep emotional wounds from his past. One of the strengths of the book is the ragged misery and rage that is allowed to hang and burn without any attempt to sanitize. It gives the journal and the author dignity and wholeness, a powerful sincerity.” – The Montreal Gazette