Essays about: "Nesbitt Hills"

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  1. 1. Documentary Photography as a Tool of Social Change: reading a shifting paradigm in the representation of HIV/AIDS in Gideon Mendel's photography

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Christine Nesbitt Hills; [2011]
    Keywords : documentary photography; photojournalism; social change; participatory; representation; politics of representation; HIV AIDS; meaning-making; communication; advocacy; tool of social change; tool of advocacy; Gideon Mendel; Nesbitt Hills; communication for development; development communication; development journalism;

    Abstract : Gideon Mendel’s ongoing photographic work documenting HIV/ AIDS, first started in 1993, has seen shifts not only in production but also in the author’s representation of his subjects. This paper looks at three texts of Mendel’s work, taken from three different stages of Mendel’s career and reads the shifting paradigm taking Mendel from photojournalist to activist armed with documentary photography as a tool of social change. READ MORE