This June, London’s Barbican Art Gallery will be opening the first major solo exhibition of British photographer Vanessa Winship’s work. There will be more than 150 photographs on view apart from some yet unseen archival materials. According to a statement by the Barbican, Winship’s work “focuses on the junction between ‘chronicle and fiction, exploring ideas around concepts of borders, land, memory, desire, identity and history.’ ”The photos on display include works from Winship’s highly praised series “Imagined States and Desires: A Balkan Journey” (1999-2003), “Black Sea: Between Chronicle and Fiction” (2002-2006), “Sweet Nothings” (2007), “Georgia: Seeds Carried by the Wind” (2008-2010), “Humber” (2010) and “She Dances on Jackson” (2011-2012). In addition, the prolific photographer has started an ongoing project called “And Time Folds” (2014-ongoing), that will also be on display.While Winship’s work has primary focus of work has been Eastern Europe, she has also produced notable works in the United States. In 2011, Winship became the first ever woman to be awarded the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award, that enabled her to travel across the United States to take some exhilarating photographs. She mostly works on long term projects including portrait, landscape, raw reportage and documentary photography. Photographs from Winship’s work have been exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London and at Les Rencontres d'Arles, having been included in three prolific books.Her groundbreaking work has also won Winship two World Press Photo Awards, 'Photographer of the Year' at the Sony World Photography Awards, and the HCB Award (Winship being the first woman to win this award). Winship is also a member of Agence Vu photography agency. Her first retrospective exhibition was in 2014 at The Fundacion MAPFRE gallery in Madrid.Vannesa Winship’s sensitive gaze explores the impulsive makings of our landscape and society, and how memory stamps its mark on our shared and individual histories. Her work intelligently captures the ‘transformation between myth and the individual.’ In a statement provided to the Barbican, Winship says of her upcoming exhibition, “I’m delighted to have the opportunity to be able to show what I’ve been doing these last years to an audience in my home country; to introduce older works, but also to have the possibility, for the first time, to reveal something of the new.”The exhibition will open on June 22, 2018 and will be on view through September 2, 2018 at The Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DSFor details, visit https://www.barbican.org.ukClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.http://www.blouinartinfo.com Founder: Louise Blouin
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