Tag: Gideon Mendel
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Fire / Flood – Photographs by Gideon Mendel | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture
Fire / Flood – Photographs by Gideon Mendel | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture A powerful outdoor exhibition in London reflects on the manifold ways the climate emergency is affecting communities across the world—and how we can visualize these urgent stories of devastation via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/gideon-mendel-fire-flood A powerful outdoor exhibition in London reflects…
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Freedom or Death: Revisiting an archive of conflict, tragedy, and struggle – British Journal of Photography
Freedom or Death: Revisiting an archive of conflict, tragedy, and struggle In 1990, Gideon Mendel left a box of negatives in his friend’s garage in South Africa. Now, 30 years later, the damaged negatives are reincarnated in a photobook via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/01/gideon-mendel-freedom-or-death/ In 1990, Gideon Mendel left a box of negatives in…
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The Documentary Photography Issue VII: Home, reimagined
The Documentary Photography Issue VII: Home, reimagined It feels as if our relationship with the idea of home is changing. Across the world, nationalism finds itself dancing freely with far-right politics, while political divisions have chopped families right down the middle, transforming previously tight-kni via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/the-documentary-photography-issue-vii-home-reimagined/ ‘Home’ is both a physical and imagined…
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Flood Victims Photographed by Gideon Mendel
Link: ‘Since 2007 I have visited six countries (The UK, India, Haiti, Pakistan, Australia and Thailand) that have been devastated by massive flooding. I have done this as an attempt to visually address the issue of climate change.
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Gideon Mendel Wins $50,000 Pollock Prize
Gideon Mendel Wins $50,000 Pollock Prize South African photog Gideon Mendel has won the inaugural Pollock Prize for Creativity. He has spent the last 9 years capturing the impact of climate change. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/03/13800.html The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, which safeguards the artistic legacies of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, initiated the Pollock Prize to support…
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Gideon Mendel’s Portraits From a Drowning World | PROOF
Gideon Mendel’s Portraits From a Drowning World His portraits seem to reflect a deep intimacy despite his having met most of his subjects only moments before. He often works with a fixer, or assistant, who helps him communicate with local people and carry gear. And he continues to shoot 120mm film, despite, he says, other…
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Video: A Look Back at the Photographer Gideon Mendel’s Work About HIV/AIDS
Through Positive Eyes: The Career of Gideon Mendel via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/10/through-positive-eyes-the-career-of-gideon-mendel.html Seventeen years ago, the South African photographer Gideon Mendel, then thirty-seven, received the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his work on H.I.V. and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Tomorrow night is the thirty-fourth annual Smith Grant ceremony, at which Mendel…
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Gideon Mendel’s Instagram photos of Nigerian Floods
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…
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‘Through Positive Eyes,’ a Participatory Photojournalism Project
Link: ‘Through Positive Eyes,’ a Participatory Photojournalism Project – NYTimes.com Gideon Mendel, along with David Gere, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, created a participatory photography project that encourages people who are H.I.V. positive to tell their stories. Over the last four years, they have put cameras in the hands of 72…