Gideon MendelGideon Mendel, born in Johannesburg in 1959, established his career with searing photographs of the final years of South Africa's apartheid. In 1991 he moved to London and continued to respond to global issues, especially the HIV epidemic. Sine 2007, using stills and video, Mendel has created Drowning World, an art and advocacy project about flooding that is his personal response to climate change. Mendel received the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity, the Greenpeace Photo Award, and was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet in 2015 and 2019. He has also received the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, the Amnesty International Media Award, and six World Press awards. Read More Read Less