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Cover. Eleven-year-old Thembeka Sibiya plays in the street with her siblings and other children in Nseleni Township, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, in 2000. Thembeka's parents died of AIDS-related infections in 1998, and she lived unattended with her 3 younger siblings in a squatter shack until they were informally adopted by a pastor and his wife. The lack of resources in the developing world to care for the rapidly increasing number of children who have lost either one or both parents to AIDS, or who are living in HIV-affected households, demands immediate and forceful action. In an attempt to provoke such action, the photographer and journalist Gideon Mendel has committed himself to documenting both the extraordinary vulnerability as well as the resilience of children living with or affected by AIDS.

Source: Corbis. Photograph by Gideon Mendel from his series A Broken Landscape. Cover concept and selection by Aleisha Kropf, Mary Northridge, and Robert Sember.

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