Vanessa Winship

Winship’s work has been exhibited at festivals and galleries nationally and internationally, including at Les
Rencontres d’Arles, France (2008), Side Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom (2008–09) and Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2009–10). Her first mid-career exhibition was held at Fundacion MAPFRE, Madrid (2014), and toured six museums in Spain and Italy. Winship’s work has also been shown at Musee de la Cohue, Vannes, France (2008), and in 2018 she held a major solo show, And Time Folds, alongside the work of Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. Winship’s work is held in collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London, The Do Good Fund, Columbus, United States, the Sir Elton John Photographic Collection, United Kingdom, Fundacion MAPFRE, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris and Tate Britain, London. She has twice received prizes at the World Press Photo Contest (1998 and 2008), won Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year (2008) and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award (2011). Winship is the author and subject of several monographs: Schwarzes Meer (Black Sea) (mareverlag, 2007), Sweet Nothings (Foto8 and Images En Manoeuvres, 2008), she dances on Jackson (MACK and HCB, 2013), Sete#19 (Le Bec en l’air editions, 2019), the boxset Seeing the Light of Day (B-Sides Box Sets EDITIONS EDITIONS, 2020) and Snow (Deadbeat Club, 2022), which interleaves images of rural Ohio with Ice, a short story by Jem Poster.

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