Amateur Photographer - UK (2020-04-18)

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Left: ‘Merged’ – a

militant youth in the

uniform of the ANC

youth league

Below left: ‘Merged’ – a

poor white woman begs

with her family on the

main street of Durban

Below: ‘The Stone, the

Gun and the Plate’

(with Marcelo Brodsky)

Left: ‘Damage’ – a rally

welcoming the SWAPO

Party of Namibia’s

leader Sam Nujoma on

his return to Namibia

after 30 years in exile.

Windhoek, September

1989

Gideon

Mendel

Gideon Mendel was born

in Johannesburg and first

started photographing in

the 1980s, during the final

years of apartheid. He

moved to the UK in the

early ’90s and had been

published in numerous

illustrious publications

including National

Geographic, The Sunday

Times and Aperture

Magazine. He has also

won many awards,

authored several books

and been widely exhibited.

See gideonmendel.com

for more information.

‘I was already very connected

to the impact water makes on

photographic emulsions, so

when I saw damage, I thought

this could be very interesting’