“Gideon Mendel came along and put the feeling of the ward into something you can understand, something words can’t express,” says Jane Bruton, a former nurse at the specialist AIDS wards at Middlesex Hospital. ⁠ ⁠ 30 years on, the South African’s photographs of tragedy and vitality are again on show in London, just a stone’s throw from the sites of the original specialist centres⁠ ⁠ 📷: @gideonmendel⁠ 🖊: @isaac_hux⁠ 🖼️: @fitzroviachapel