Photographing something as intangible as hope - the emotion or condition - sounds at first like photographing the not-so-silent desires of a nation's electorate. Everyone has hopes, but how do you capture them?

AIDS Research Alliance invited over fifty public figures to do just that by participating in the celebrity photography exhibit "Snapshots: Images of Hope."

It turns out that the exhibit is a meditation on very palpable subject matter. So often captured in front of the lens, these talented men and women - actors, musicians, athletes - stepped behind the camera to capture images that, like rising sap, channel their concept of hope through their subjects.

Each photographer on display is simpatico with the idea or potential of hope. And viewers will either receive a pleasant jolt by identifying the hope in a given picture right away, or they are led to imagine the optimistic story around a picture.

It may be that hope is just the ability to show something because it is good.

Vincent Cummings and Michael Shelton

AIDS Research Alliance

We thank this year's artists.
Mssrs. Alex Ali/Lynn Walker
Ms. Barbara Lazaroff
Mr. Corbin Bleu
Ms. Marcia Cross
Ms. Hilary Cruz
Ms. Debbie Deb
Ms. Fran Drescher
Ms. Lisa Edelstein
Ms. Mitzi Gaynor
Ms. Leeza Gibbons
Ms. Deborah Gibson
Mr. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Mr. Steven Guttenberg
Mr. Tab Hunter
Mr. Jim J. Bullock
Ms. Shar Jackson
Ms. Lorielle New
Ms. Bai Ling
Ms. Debi Mazar
Ms. Rue McClanahan
Ms. Julie Mccullogh
Mr. Rob Minkoff
Ms. Riyo Mori
Ms. Julie Newmar
Mr. Peter Paige
Mr. Alan Parsons
Ms. Jacqueline Pinol
Ms. Stefanie Powers
Ms. Stacy Q
Mr. Efren Ramirez
Ms. Nancy Reagan
Ms. Olesya Rulin
Ms. Chelsi Smith
Mr. Ringo Starr
Ms. Nicholle Tom
Mr. Bruce Vilanch
Mr. Henry Winkler
Ms. Kristi Yamaguchi