Tag: Gideon Mendel
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Gideon Mendel: Dzhangal
Photographer Gideon Mendel has created a powerful installation using objects he gathered during visits to the ‘Jungle’ refugee camp in Calais. By focusing on items such as toothbrushes, playing cards, worn-out trainers, teargas canisters, and children’s dolls, Mendel conjures alternative portraits of the ‘Jungle’ residents that also stand in for the plight of displaced people…
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Gideon Mendel awarded 1st Pollock Prize
On 16 March 2016, Charles C. Bergman, chairman and CEO of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, announced the establishment of the Pollock Prize for Creativity, honoring an outstanding artist whose work embodies high creative standards and exemplifies the impact of art on individuals and society. Given on a yearly basis, the Pollock Prize carries a cash award…
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Gideon Mendel: Drowning World
The work of Gideon Mendel, widely regarded as one of the world’s leading documentary photographers, is presented at Plymouth Arts Centre in collaboration with Fotonow CIC. “In a flooded landscape, life is suddenly turned upside down and normality is suspended. With an almost ‘tracing paper’ effect on the societies in which they occur, flood waters…
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