Vanessa Winship
| Vanessa Winship | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1960 (age 56–57) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Works |
Sweet Nothings She Dances on Jackson |
| Spouse(s) | George Georgiou |
| Website | www |
Vanessa Winship (born 1960) is a British photographer who works on long term projects of portrait, landscape, reportage and documentary photography. She has worked on numerous personal projects, predominantly in Eastern Europe, photographs from which have been exhibited twice in the National Portrait Gallery in London and prominently at Les Rencontres d'Arles; included in three highly regarded books; and have won her two World Press Photo Awards, 'Photographer of the Year' at the Sony World Photography Awards, and the HCB Award (the first woman to do so). She is a member of Agence Vu photography agency.
Her first retrospective exhibition was at Fundación MAPFRE gallery in Madrid in 2014.
Winship grew up in Barton-upon-Humber, rural Lincolnshire. She studied at Baysgarth School;Hull Art College (which included a photography module); photography at Filton Technical College, Bristol; 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.
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.
Her work is about the concepts of borders, land, desire, identity, belonging, memory and history, how those histories are told and how identities are expressed.
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