Beloved portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz often captures celebrity subjects before her noted lens, having snapped cultural icons ranging from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
Her most recent photograph, however, depicts a different sort of notable figures, those linked to the development of several life-saving vaccines. The image is part of the vaccination awareness campaign “The Art of Saving a Life (ASAL),” which, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, commissioned creative works from artists, writers and musicians, exhibiting the many ways vaccines have positively impacted history.
–
“I think if one person can understand the thought and work that goes into developing a vaccine and the benefit of that,” Jeryl Hilleman, son of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine creator, added behind the scenes of the shoot, “if one child gets vaccinated, it was really worthwhile today.” To this day, 1.5 million children die from vaccine-preventable diseases every year. That’s one child every 20 seconds.
See more works from “The Art of Saving a Life” below and visit the website to learn more.
