Vanessa Winship - Sweet Nothings - 2008-2019

Two wonderful photo books of the master of large-format portraits and storytelling with photography.

Two excellent books by renowed and multi awarded british documentary photographer Vanessa Winship, known for intimate portraitures taken with large format 4x5' analog camera: SETE #19 & SWEET NOTHINGS.

The books are used but in very good condition. One of them (SWEET NOTHINGS) is signed by the author and has few minor marks on the cover.
SETE is in Like new condition.

Winship is the member of Vu Agency.

Sète #19 - Vanessa Winship “Landscapes, people, a sensitive black and white, without effect, vibrating with subtle greys, the feeling that spaces are inhabited, that they contain memories, traces, that man, without it being obvious, has shaped and inhabited them, this is what we feel in Vanessa Winship’s so particular approach. As usual, she doesn’t describe, she doesn’t testify to anything other than what she feels, she doesn’t try to demonstrate anything but wants to share with us the emotions that assail her when she lets herself go in the measure of the space she crosses. “Nothing excessive, a lot of restraint, perhaps even a little sadness, or at the very least melancholy, in this discovery ballad that always finds the right distance to things, to signs to people who are gently crossed and tamed. An attentive, generous look, served by precise and never forced framing, which breathes as if carried by the wind that accompanied the photographer towards the flexibility of the grasses, the textures of the walls, the beaches, the vegetation or the ripples that trap the gray light. In search, in fact, of what discreetly keeps track of a time when we lived here of fishing, wine, salt.

Sweet Nothings: Multi awarded project (World Press Photo and other awards).

Photographer Vanessa Winship lived and worked in the area of Eastern Turkey for almost a decade an explosive region containing the borderlands of Iraq, Iran and Armenia. Struck by enduring images of rural schoolgirls wearing little blue dresses and their delicate status within politically loaded discussions over borders and identity, Winship systematically documented her encounter with them. The result is a fascinating collection of images, each of which tells a simple story while also documenting these girls in their fragility, grace and without any form of posturing.

softcover (with monor marks)
51 pages
2008