Vanessa Winship

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Vanessa Winship evocatively captured the link between a place and its inhabitants during her year-long journey across the United States – becoming familiar with the vastness of its landscapes and the many different people inhabiting the places she visited. “She dances on Jackson” is an attempt to understand and visualise how continuously changing surroundings form us as human beings, and vice versa: this becomes especially evident in the gentle dialogue presented between the black-and-white panoramic views of streets or individual buildings, the intense gaze of her portraits’ protagonists, and the close-up compositions of nature or fabrics where everything seems to be delicately interwoven and every fibre is imbued with meaning. Like an extended poem in photographs, the artist creates an emotional encounter that invites viewers to feel the relationship between photographer and subject.

 

Biographical information

1960

born in Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

1984-87

studies cinema and photography at Westminster University (Polytechnic of Central London), United Kingdom

2011

receives the Prix Henri Cartier Bresson, France

lives in London, United Kingdom