Gideon Mendel was born in 1959 in South Africa. After studying Psychology and African Economic History, he became a freelance news photographer in 1983. He moved to London in 1990 and has since been published in most of the leading international magazines. He has won several World Press Photo awards and in 1996 he received the prestigious Eugene Smith Grant in New York for his work on Aids in Africa.
He is a member of Network Photographers in London.

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More photographs of Gideon Mendel on the Web

A broken landscape A reportage of Gideon Mendel on HIV & Aids in Africa, featured on the Network website.