Vanessa Winship

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Vanessa Winship
HonFRPS
Born1960 (age 63–64)
NationalityBritish
OccupationPhotographer
Notable work
  • Sweet Nothings
  • She Dances on Jackson
Spouse George Georgiou
Website www.vanessawinship.com

Vanessa Winship HonFRPS (born 1960) is a British photographer who works on long term projects of portrait, landscape, reportage and documentary photography. These personal projects have predominantly been in Eastern Europe but also the USA. Winship's books include Schwarzes Meer (2007), Sweet Nothings (2008) and She Dances on Jackson (2013).

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Her first retrospective exhibition was at Fundación Mapfre gallery in Madrid in 2014. [1] Her first major UK solo exhibition is at Barbican Art Gallery, London, in 2018. Her work has also been exhibited twice in the National Portrait Gallery in London and prominently at Rencontres d'Arles in France.

Winship has won two World Press Photo Awards, 'Photographer of the Year' at the Sony World Photography Awards, the HCB Award (the first woman to do so) and in 2018 an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. She is a member of Agence Vu photography agency. [2]

Biography

Winship grew up in Barton-upon-Humber, [3] [4] rural Lincolnshire. [5] She studied at Baysgarth School; [4] Hull Art College [4] (which included a photography module); photography at Filton Technical College, Bristol; [4] and photography, film, and video at the Polytechnic of Central London from 1984 to 1987, graduating with a BA (Hons). She met her husband, the photographer George Georgiou, on the degree course. [5]

From 1999 she spent a decade living and working in the Balkans and surrounding territories of Turkey and the Black Sea. First she lived in Belgrade, for a short while in Athens, and five years in Istanbul. [6]

Her work is about the concepts of borders, [6] land, desire, identity, belonging, [6] memory and history, how those histories are told and how identities are expressed. [7]

Her books have been widely acclaimed. Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian, said "She is perhaps best known for Sweet Nothings, one of my favourite photography books of recent years". [6] She Dances on Jackson was considered by Simon Bainbridge (editor of the BJP), [8] Sean O'Hagan, [9] Rob Hornstra [10] and other reviewers to be shortlisted amongst the best photography books released in 2013. [11] [12] [13] [14] Phil Coomes, Picture editor at BBC News said "This is pure photography, and in my view, when viewed as a whole, is about as good as it gets." [15]

Winship is a member of Agence Vu photography agency [2] and the World Photographic Academy. [16] As of 2012 and 2013 she was based in London and Folkestone, England. [5]

Techniques

Winship and George Georgiou travel together, [6] alternating between one working and the other either supporting them or experimenting with their own photography. [5]

She uses black-and-white photographic film in natural light. [17] For her work in a reportage—or street—style she has used a 35 mm hand-held camera, [n 1] for her landscape work she has at times used a medium format camera [3] and for her portraiture work she has at times used a 5×4-inch large format camera. [n 2] [6] [15] [17] [18] She says of the difference between using 35 mm and large format that "Each methodology makes for a different relationship with my subjects [and] both have their own beauty for me". [19]

Projects

Publications

Publications by Winship

Publications with contributions by Winship

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Exhibitions with others

Awards

Notes

  1. ↑ Schwarzes Meer was shot using 35 mm.
  2. ↑ Sweet Nothings was shot using a large format camera.
  3. ↑ Not being Spanish, her show is not officially included within PHotoEspaña 2014 as in that year it focused on Spanish photography.

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