Vanessa Winship
©Vanessa Winship
I am a huge fan of Vanessa Winship. Her work is absolutely breath taking. I can stay for hours on her site looking at every single image. She takes you on a journey. She’s poetic and with her work Sweet Nothings: Rural Schoolgirls from the Borderlands of Eastern Anatolia, Vanessa lets these innocent girls tell their stories through their eyes. I was in awe the first time I saw this series and recently seeing/listening to an interview that Vanessa did on the WorldPress site, it heightened her work with these girls even more. Check out the interview
*I’m sure this interview has been up for a while now and many have seen it. But I really enjoyed it and wanted to share it here.
About Aislinn
Aislinn Leggett is a Montreal-based photographer. You can learn more about her work on her website and on her personal blog. You can also follow her Twitter @aislinnleggett and on Facebook.
thanks so much for this, Aislinn – quite wonderful in many ways.
Thanks for the great link. Although Sweet Nothings was riveting, Vanessa’s Imagined States and Desires is not to be missed.
Best,
Louis
I agree Louis. Her work is all around stunning.
Vanessa’s images are probably the ones that stood out the most to me at last years World Press Expo. There’s something about, crisp, black & white portraits that makes them stand out to me amongst all other photojournalism projects around … I must be old school at heart.
Patrick, I don’t think that’s old school. I think Vanessa’s honesty, passion and respect for her subjects makes for really outstanding, incredible imagery. I think you just have good taste!
Some a little spooky about three girls stood so still together … and so serious