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Gideon Mendel & UCLA Art and Global Health Center The Harsh Divide and Through Positive Eyes Gideon Mendel is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading contemporary photojournalists. Born in South Africa, he moved to London in 1990, from where he has documented social issues in Africa and globally. Gideon Mendel first began photographing the topic of AIDS in Africa in 1993. The images on this spiral span seven years in his work. The panoramic image on the inner panel was made in 2003 as part of a project entitled The Harsh Divide, a collaboration with Treatment Access Campaign (TAC). The self-portraits made by HIV positive individuals on the outer panel were taken in 2010 as part of the Through Positive Eyes workshop, where 17 South Africans living with HIV photographed their own lives. The inner image was taken in the TAC office in Braamfontein in Johannesburg, and it happened partly through a misunderstanding. Mendel had hoped to meet and photograph two individuals that morning in the TAC office.
However 24 people responded to the request and turned up hoping to be part of the shoot. The making of this image was a daylong collaboration with the group arranging themselves in a circle to be photographed with their chosen messages. The images on the outside of this spiral are all self-representations made by the HIV positive participants in the Through Positive Eyes workshop held in Johannesburg. Funding provided by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), The Andy Warhol Foundation, and The School of the Arts and Architecture at the University of California - Los Angeles. Special thanks to Pholokgolo Ramothwala and Positive Convention. This display is a collaboration with the UCLA Art and Global Health Center.
Page 1 and 2: A project of Make Art /Stop Aids
Page 3 and 4: The A.R.T. Cabinet Design & constru
Page 5 and 6: Vaughn Sadie’s two installations,
Page 7: Jenna Burchell If These Walls Could
Page 11 and 12: “Although the road ahead is still
Page 13 and 14: Lolette Smith Communication Sectors
Page 15 and 16: Kim Berman Reclaiming our Future: T
Page 17 and 18: Woza Moya Crafters Beaded Curtains
Page 19 and 20: “HIV attacks our body; the stigma
Page 21 and 22: Lunga Kama Ze 1 & 2 Kama’s self-p
Page 23 and 24: The A.R.T. Cabinet Xavier Clarisse

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