Network Photographers for New Millennium Experience
01 January, 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.
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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