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May 28, 2013
Vanessa Winship is a British photojournalist who lived for 10 years in the Balkans and Turkey when she won the prestigious 2011 Henri Cartier-Bresson International Award. This funded the long journey around the United States in 2011 to rummage in the rubble of the American dream.
This resulted in a black and white book of photographs of stark landscapes of America’s heartlands—and the isolated figures that reside within them. These were made with a large format camera, and are touched with melancholy:
Vanessa Winship, Printers Row, Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois, 2012
The work in her book, She Dances on Jackson, consists of portraits of predominantly young people interspersed with the bleak landscapes
Vanessa Winship, James on the bank of the James river, Richmond, Virginia, 2012
The loneliness and melancholy in American life is created by the pursuit of the American dream.
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