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"'Gideon Mendel"' is regarded as one of the world’s leading contemporary photographers. His work engages with contemporary social issues of global concern. His intimate style of committed image making, and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international acclaim. Mendel has a career spanning over years. Originally from South Africa, he is currently based in London. It was his work as a ‘struggle photographer’ during the final years of apartheid first brought his work to global attention. 〔http://gideonmendel.com/biography-2/〕 ==Career== 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 and produced a number of bodies of work documenting the resultant societal conditions and political climate in South Africa. In the early 1990s he moved to London, from where he has continued to respond to social issues experienced globally. He travels extensively in order to do so, which is reflected by his images focusing on people and societies from countries all over the world. Most of his projects are developed over long periods of time, and he has established a very personal approach to his work, through which he attempts to challenge viewers by pushing boundaries and translating issues of global concern into work in order to evoke a response. Video has increasingly become a part if his practice, and he also employs collaborative photography as a means of interacting with his subjects. Mendel has worked for many leading magazines—amongst them National Geographic, Fortune Magazine, Geo, The Independent Magazine, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, L’Express, Stern and Rolling Stone. 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 charities and campaigning organizations including The Global Fund, Médecins Sans Frontières, Treatment Action Campaign, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ActionAid, the Terrene Higgins Trust, Shelter, Leonard Cheshire International, UNICEF and Concern Worldwide. 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. Most recently he has been shortlisted for the Prix Pictet 2015 (Disorder) for Drowning World. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gideon Mendel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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