Adrain Chesser: I Have Something To Tell You

<3 PRIDE TITLE! LIMITED QUANTITIES 6 x 9 inches vertical; 3 unbound sheets equivalent to 96 pages; hardcover. $125.00 plus shipping Interview with the artist by Tim Wride; texts by Gloria Babcock and Victoria Carlson ISBN: 978-1-732-1241-10 In 2003 photographer Adrain Chesser tested positive for HIV, and was diagnosed with AIDS. The prospect of telling friends and loved ones brought back the pain and fear of rejection too often confirmed in his process of coming out as a young man. Turning to his artform, and to the chosen community surrounding him, he sought to heal those earlier wounds through a powerful and collaborative portrait project. I have something to tell you has been featured through solo exhibitions in Santa Fe, Houston, Portland, OR, and Seattle. Chesser presented the series at a TEDx convention in Vienna, Austria in 2016; a documentary short by Dumaine Babcock and Ben Joyner has just been released and was featured at the Savannah Film Festival in November 2017. The