kind of twist in the tale of my Water Marks work. When
driven to make images that respond to the key social and
I left South Africa in 1990, I left some boxes in a friend’s
political issues of our time.
garage which I kind of forgot about, and among them was
a box of color negatives and color transparencies. I didn’t
ANDREA: There are a lot of things that one could choose
consider them very important from the struggle era of
to photograph in this world. There are so many horrific
my work. That box got water damaged and it was given
things that need to be paid more attention to. I was won-
back to me recently and the whole top layer of the box was
dering why you chose the floods?
damaged and that actually created some intriguing images. I am dealing with my own images from the struggle
GIDEON: I felt that I wanted to develop a direct impact
era that have been water damaged in that way. I think that
of time and change on people and I wanted to look into
marked me as a photographer. Since that mark, I’ve been
the eyes of time and change victims. My first attempt
Gideon Mendel, Ahmed, Khairpur Nathan Shah, Sindh, Pakistan, September 2010.
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