Born in Johannesburg in 1959, Gideon Mendel began his career as a news and ‘struggle’ photographer documenting the final years of apartheid. His work has been widely published in magazines and newspapers including National Geographic, Geo and the Guardian Weekend. Shortlisted for the Prix Pictet in 2015 and 2019, he has also received the Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography, the Amnesty International Media Award, and six World Press awards.
Paul Mason is an award-winning journalist who reports regularly on labor rights and social justice stories as economics editor for BBC World News America and BBC Newsnight. In addition to Live Working Or Die Fighting, which was shortlisted as a 2007 Guardian First Book Award, Mason is the author of Meltdown: the End of the Age of Greed (Verso).