Vanessa Winship - She dances on Jackson - 2013

In 2011, Vanessa Winship was the recipient of the Henri Cartier Bresson Award, which funds an artist to pursue a new photographic project. For over a year, Winship traveled across the United States, from California to Virginia, New Mexico to Montana, in pursuit of the fabled ‘American dream’. Vanessa Winship presents a conversation, a lyrical and lilting interaction between landscape and portrait exploring the vastness of the United States and attempting to understand the link between a territory and its inhabitants. For Winship, this relationship is inextricable; places acquire particular meanings according to the people she meets, what she observes, and what happens to her personally. Each human encounter, sound, and smell adds extra dimensions to her work and the resulting photographs.

She dances on Jackson marks a progression. Stylistically similar to her previous work using black and white film and a large format camera, Winship’s portraits remain arresting and unnerving, but this body of work also reveals her to be a skilled landscape photographer. For Winship, photography is a process of literacy, a path through which she understands life. Her intimate approach allows the viewer to glimpse the world as she sees it, if only for a moment.

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