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Vanessa Winship

born 1960

Richmond, Virginia 2011–12
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37 artworks by Vanessa Winship
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Biography

Vanessa Winship HonFRPS (born 1960) is a British photographer who works on long term projects of portrait, landscape, reportage and documentary photography. These personal projects have predominantly been in Eastern Europe but also the USA. Winship's books include Schwarzes Meer (2007), Sweet Nothings (2008) and She Dances on Jackson (2013).

Her first retrospective exhibition was at Fundación Mapfre gallery in Madrid in 2014. Her first major UK solo exhibition is at Barbican Art Gallery, London, in 2018. Her work has also been exhibited twice in the National Portrait Gallery in London and prominently at Rencontres d'Arles in France.

Winship has won two World Press Photo Awards, 'Photographer of the Year' at the Sony World Photography Awards, the HCB Award (the first woman to do so) and in 2018 an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. She is a member of Agence Vu photography agency.

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Artworks

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  • Gjirokaster, Albania

    Vanessa Winship
    1999–2002
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  • Shkoder, Albania

    Vanessa Winship
    1999–2002
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  • Kukës, Albania

    Vanessa Winship
    1999–2002
  • Gjirokaster, Albania

    Vanessa Winship
    1999–2002
  • Untitled

    Vanessa Winship
    1999–2002
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  • Studenica, Kosovo

    Vanessa Winship
    1999–2002
  • Zonguldak, Turkey

    Vanessa Winship
    2002–6
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  • Batumi, Georgia

    Vanessa Winship
    2002–6
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