Vanessa Winship
Project Description
Set in Ohio, USA, Snow expresses a sense of loneliness, longing and disquiet. Of the left behind- of who and what remains. Snow covers the surface of the earth silently, then melts and reveals. Estrangement is echoed in a story– by the poet and novelist Jem Poster that’s woven through Snow. It tells of a female portrait photographer and her recalcitrant subject. But this character is not Winship, and the sitter is not someone in a Winship photograph. Poster’s is a fiction based on an imagistic construct – another beguiling layer in a complicated book that seeks always to expose the slipperiness of narrative and to destabilize easy readings.
Bio
Vanessa Winship is the author and subject of seven photographic monographs, Schwarzes Meer (Mareverlag GmbH 2007), Sweet Nothings (Foto8/Images En Manœuvres 2008), she dances on Jackson (MACK/HCB 2013), Vanessa Winship (Fundación MAPFRE 2014), And Time Folds (MACK/Barbican 2018), Sète#19 (Le Bec en L’air / Images Singulieres 2019) and a box set, Seeing the Light of Day ( B-Sides Box Sets-EDITIONS EDITIONS, 2020) and Snow (Deadbeat Club 2022) In 2005 she joined Agence VU in Paris. She is the recipient a number of awards, including two World Press Photo prizes, 1998 and 2008, the Henri Cartier Bresson foundation prize, 2011, Paris, France. She has exhibited at numerous festivals and institutions, nationally and internationally. Her first mid-career-survey show was held at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain 2014 and later at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, UK. More recently she has been invited as resident artist in the region of Sète, France, and Cumbria, UK, 2018 and 2020 respectively. With George Georgiou she leads photography workshops, separately as guest speaker, tutor, reviewer, mentor and latterly as a curator.