For more than a decade Vanessa Winship has developed long term projects in different parts of the world capturing everyday life, ranging from encounters on the street to engaged portraits. Working primarily in black and white her images are simultaneously timeless and contemporary and often weave an explorative narrative related to the desire to evoke a sense of place.

In ‘she dances on Jackson’ (2011-2012) Winship explores vast swaths of the United States using a variety of approaches including straight portraits, chance encounters and documents of the urban and natural landscape. It was this variety of subject matter which drew me to Winship’s work for the Hariban Award and my own desire to see this variety of photographic approach transformed into collotype prints.

– Shoair Mavlian Juror, Hariban Award 2018

Bio

Vanessa Winship (Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, 1960) is an English photographer known for her works which explore the fragile nature of landscapes and society and how memory leaves its mark on our collective and individual histories. She has won numerous awards including the prestigious Henri Cartier-Bresson Award (2011), Godfrey Argent Prize, National Portrait Gallery (2008), 2nd Prize Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery (2009) and the Iris d’Or Sony World Photography Award (2008). Recent solo exhibitions include Vanessa Winship And Time Folds, Barbican Art Gallery, London (2018), Vanessa Winship at Foundation MAPFRE, Spain (2014), Georgia: Seeds Carried by the Wind, Third Floor Gallery Cardiff, UK (2013), she dances on Jackson, Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France (2013) and Sweet Nothings and Black Sea: Between Chronicle and Fiction, Side Gallery, Newcastle (2008/09).