In 2003, Gideon Mendel grabbed the attention of the international media with A Broken Landscape, a collection of emotive and often shocking black and white photographs and first-person narratives depicting the AIDS crisis in eight African countries. At the time, the work prompted some controversy: it helped to raise awareness of the grim realities where access to antiretroviral drugs was still limited, but some critics accused Mendel of portraying African communities as passive victims. His latest , Through Positive Eyes, published this year by Aperture, could not be more different. Abandoning the humanist photographic tradition and the African focus that made him famous, he has instead travelled across all five continents to put cameras in the hands of people living with HIV.

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交出相机：十个城市的“艺术家”讲述他们的故事

2003年，吉迪恩·孟德尔（Gideon Mendel）凭借《破碎的风景》（A Broken Landscape）吸引了国际媒体的注意，这是一组情感丰富且经常令人震惊的黑白照片，以及描述八个非洲国家艾滋病危机的第一人称叙述。当时，这项工作引发了一些争议：它有助于提高人们对严峻的现实的认识，因为在这些现实中，获得抗逆转录病毒药物仍然受到限制，但一些批评家指责孟德尔将非洲社区描绘成被动的受害者。他今年由Aperture出版的最新作品《通过积极的眼睛》再无二致。放弃了以人为本的摄影传统和使他成名的非洲焦点，他转而穿越五大洲，将相机放在艾滋病毒携带者手中。