Gideon Mendel’s Instagram photos of Nigerian Floods

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Old-Timer Joins Instagram, Schools Everyone With Poignant Flood Photos

Gideon Mendel doesn’t have a Facebook account. He “never really found a voice on Twitter” and his website doesn’t have a bio. But his use of Instagram to cover the Nigerian floods that were being largely overlooked by (American) media has been brilliant.

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/12/gideon-mendel-nigerian-floods/?pid=4416&viewall=true

“‘Instagram, it seems, is a medium that is often used in a frivolous way,’ posits Mendel. ‘I wondered if I could use it in a way that is completely serious.’”