and photojournalists have been making very strong attempts
in the Guardian magazine, National Geographic. It’s been
to redefine themselves as artists recently. In some cases, I think
published in a number of serious magazines and newspapers
it works very well and in other cases I think it feels artificial.
and continues to be. It’s also been used in the activism world.
It can be a strategic response to the practice. Photojournalism
It’s been used in a variety of protests and been part of time and
has become a mess in many ways, it has become harder and
change activism and that’s very important to me. And increas-
harder for photojournalists to make a living; journalism is a
ingly additionally been active in the art world in a variety of
state of mind. For a long time I’ve always tried to use a lot of
art contexts which I’m quite excited by.
art concepts in my photojournalism and I’m quite proud of
the fact that my work seems to have that and speaks well in
ANDREA: I was very excited to see the process you go
a variety of different contexts. My Drowning World project has
through regarding photo montaging, scanning, and etc.
had a long and effective life in the media. It’s been published
There are no limits when you’re working that way.
Gideon Mendel, Florence Abraham, Igbogene, Bayelsa State , Nigeria, November 2012.
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