Sports, 1st prize
Gideon Mendel
Network Photographers for Telegraph Magazine / Das Magazin
Network Photographers for Telegraph Magazine / Das Magazin
01 January, 1993
The new Zambian national football team poses for photographers. Six months before, the national team perished in a plane crash in Gabon. The country showed its resilience by putting together a new national selection in record time. The new team narrowly failed to qualify for the World Cup tournament in the USA.
Gideon Mendel
Born in Johannesburg in 1959, he studied psychology and African history at the University of Cape Town. Following his studies he became a freelance photographer, photographing ch...
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