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Nikon F2H-MD Camera from the home of Terry Murphy, Colorado, USA, 2022
Giclee Print on Hahnemühle Baryta paper Mounted to archival Kappa board and framed
56 x 70 cm
Edition of 5 + 2 | | | | | | Photo London | | | | 11 – 14 May 2023 | | | | Preview: Wednesday 10 May | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Gideon Mendel
Filters for Nikon Lenses from the home of Terry Murphy, Colorado, USA, 2022
Giclee Print on Hahnemühle Baryta paper Mounted to archival Kappa board and framed
56 x 70 cm
Edition of 5 + 2 | | | | | | ARTCO Galleries are proud to announce a solo presentation of the world-renowned photographer, artist and activist Gideon Mendel at Photo London.
Mendel’s forty years of socially engaged photographic practice amount to a profound act of witnessing. His partisan projects are made with the intention to be of use, to both record the world we live in, and also to change it. The resulting photographs feature people from some of the poorest and wealthiest communities on the planet, at the moment of disaster all equally vulnerable to the floods and flames that envelop them.
The fundamental elements of fire and water become a levelling factor bringing Mendel’s subjects together in visual solidarity as they gaze directly at the camera, demanding the viewers close consideration of man-made global warming. In these devastated landscapes reality can seem inverted. With surreal reflections and ghostly charred remnants, we see the impressions of these climate events on both intimate personal spaces and areas of natural beauty. There is often an eerily precise symmetry to be found within the chaos.
Artco will showcase prints from the multiple narrative threads of Gideon Mendel’s highly acclaimed Drowning World and Burning World projects which capture the human experience and physical impacts of climate change. | | | | | | | | | Gideon Mendel
Burnt Olive Tree (1) Evia Island, Greece, 2021
Silver Gilatin Print on llford Multigrade Classic Paper
40.6 x 50.8 cm (20 x 16 inches)
Edition of 5 + 2 | | | | | | Recognized as one of the world’s leading contemporary photographers, Mendel’s intimate style of image-making and long-term commitment to socially engaged projects has earned him international acclaim. Born in Johannesburg in 1959, he studied Psychology and African History at the University of Cape Town. He began photographing in the 1980s, during the final years of apartheid. It was this work as a "struggle photographer" that first brought his work to global attention. In the early 1990s he moved to London, continuing to respond to global social issues, with a major focus on HIV/AIDS, particularly in Africa but expanding worldwide during the last twenty years.
Since 2007, Mendel has been working on Drowning World, his long-term art and advocacy project about flooding that is a personal response to climate change. Solo shows of Drowning World have been shown at many galleries and public installations around the word, including Les Recontres de la Photographie in Arles.
Amongst many accolades, Mendel has won the Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography, six World Press Photo Awards, first prize in the Pictures of the Year competition, a POY Canon Photo Essayist Award, and the Amnesty International Media Award for Photojournalism. In 2015 he was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Award (Disorder) for Drowning World. In 2016 he was the first recipient of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s "Pollock Prize for Creativity" and also received the Jury Prize of the 2016 Greenpeace Photo Award. | | | | | | | | | Gideon Mendel
Amjad Ali Laghari, Sindh Province, Pakistan, 2022
Chromogenic print on Fuji Maxima paper Mounted to aluminium 70 x 70 cm
Edition of 5 + 2 | | | | | | | Gideon Mendel (*1959) has worked for many leading magazines, including National Geographic, Geo, and The Guardian Weekend Magazine. His first book, A Broken Landscape: HIV & AIDS in Africa, was published in 2001. Since then he has produced a number of photographic advocacy projects, working with prominent NGOs, including The Global Fund, Médecins Sans Frontières, Treatment Action Campaign, Action Aid, the Terrene Higgins Trust, UNICEF, Christian Aid, and Concern Worldwide. | | | | | | | | | Gideon Mendel
Greater Evangelical World Crusade Church toilet block; Bayelsa State, Nigeria, 2022
Chromogenic print on Fuji Maxima paper Mounted to aluminium
70 x 70 cm
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