Vanessa Winship è nata nel 1960 a Londra.Vive e lavora tra Londra e la Turchia.
Vanessa Winship è una fotografa inglese, ma ha vissuto e lavorato nei Balcani e in
Turchia per quasi un decennio.Nelle sue immagini, si concentra la congiunzione tra
finzione e realtà, esplorando idee intorno ai concetti di confine, terra, memoria, identità e
storia. Il suo lavoro è stato riconosciuto a livello internazionale. Vanessa Winship, ha
ricevuto due volte il premio “World Press Awards” ed ha esposto all’evento annuale
“Photographic Portrait Awards” alla “National Portrait Gallery” di Londra. Nel 2008,
Vanessa ha ricevuto “L’Iris D’Or” dal “Sony World Photography Awards” come fotografo
dell’anno. Il suo lavoro è stato proiettato al “Visa Pour L’Image” e al “Rencontres
d’Arles”, ed è stato esibito in diverse mostre personali in Europa. Con la serie Sweet
Nothings” ha vinto nel 2008 il WorldPress Photo,sez portraits.
Vanessa Winship. Born in 1960 in the United Kingdom. Lives in London and Turkey.
After studying cinema and photography at Westminster University (Polytechnic of
Central London), Vanessa began as a teacher and then worked for the National Science
Museum in London. Afterward, she became a freelance photographer at home and
abroad. Vanessa has worked as an independent photographer.In 2005 she joined
“Agence VU” in Paris, and since 2009 is represented by their gallery in France.Vanessa
lived and worked in the Balkans and Turkey for almost a decade, she is currently based
in the UK.She is interested in ideas around the concepts of borders, land, desire, identity
memory and history, and about how those histories are told and identities are
expressed.Her imagery explores the junction between chronicle and fiction, both through
her visual imagery and through the use of text, which she refers to as memory texts. Her
work has been recognised internationally. The following year she undertook a long term
project on the Balkans, and received an honourable mention in the Oscar Barnack
competition for her “Albanian landscape” project in 2003. She now lives in London. She
has received two first prize World Press Photo Awards: in 1998, and in 2008
respectively. In 2008 in portrait category with the serie “Sweet Nothings”. Her first book
The Black Sea was published by Mare in September 2007. “Sweet Nothings” is
published in the U.K by Foto8.
Mostre Principali selezionate/ Selected Exhibitions
2010
“Sweet Nothings” mc2gallery Milano
2009
Side Gallery, UK
Kunsthal, Rotterdam
Host Gallery London,UK
2008
Photographers Gallery, London, UK
National Portrait Gallery, London UK
Tops International festival, Shanyang, China
Look3 International festival, Charlottesville, USA
Athens Month of Photography, Cats and Marble Gallery
Rencontres D'Arles, invited exhibitor of Christian Lacroix
Vannes Festival De Mer, France
World Press Photo Global Tour
Sony World Photography Global Tour
2007
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK