Millennuim Dome by Gideon Mendel

Photo Credit: 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 change and conflict in South Africa in the lead-up to Nelson Mandela's release from prison. He has won six World Press Photo Awards, first prize in the American Pictures of the Year competition, a POY Canon Photo Essayist Award, the Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography and the Amnesty International Media Award for Photojournalism.

Millennium Dome

Arts and Entertainment, second prize singles

1998

Some of Britain's best circus performers join in a workshop to train the cast of the Millennium Show. The show will be put on up to five times a day throughout the year 2000 in the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, London. At any one time there will be as many as 60 performers working up to 50m above the ground. Rehearsals took place in a space converted from a previously derelict Victorian power station.