Interview with Gideon Mendel In Art Africa Magazine

'Filming But Drowning': Gordon Glyn-Jones In Conversation with Gideon Mendel on 19 July 2016.

In the coffee-table-canon of revered South African photographers, a few names regularly float to the surface: Goldblatt, Mthethwa, Oberholzer and so on. With the international recognition for his series ‘Drowning World,’ Gideon Mendel finally edges into their ranks. This year he’s been Shortlisted for the Prix Pictet, won the Jackson Pollock Award and Axis Gallery will host a solo show of his work at1:54 London. Gordon Glyn-Jones discusses Mendel’s ‘Drowning World’ and his new series ‘Watermarks’ which breathes new life into flood damaged photographs.
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Gideon Mendel, detail of J.B. Singh, Jawahar Nagar, Srinagar, Kashmir, India. October 2014. All images courtesy of the artist.