Vanessa Winship nació en Barton-upon- Humber en 1960. Su obra se basa en el cambio que ha experimentado el siglo XX en las personas y los territorios que estas transitan. Las fotografías representan la sociedad, nuestra sociedad y los cambios que nos afectan.
A través de la fotografía intenta entender el mundo en el que vivimos, explorando objetos, paisajes o personas de forma profunda. Sus retratos se caracterizan por la fuerza de expresividad en la mirada, esto se debe a la la artista no intenta fotografía el físico de las personas, sino su interior. Es capaz de generar sentimientos y emociones a través de la mirada.
El principal objetivo de la artista es expresar fragilidad, expresar cómo el paisaje es integrado por seres humanos y cómo son marcados por la historia. Nada es fijo, todo cambia.
Vanessa Kinship was born in Barton- upon- Humber, 1960. She establishes a dialogue with the mark left by the last twentieth century on people and the places they pass through: long process defined by movement of facture and integration, the instability of frontiers and the reaffirmation of identities. All the potential and the documentary content of her photography thus shifts toward more intimate concepts such as vulnerability, the body and biography. Her series reveal the way in which physical features, clothing, customs, legacies, national and racial affiliations and governmental orders are inscribed on the skin.
This dual nature, located between documentary research and personal investigation, is crucial to Kinship's work. Wether her images depict the immediacy of a moment that almost escapes the gaze or are based on a model posing, there is an element of authenticity, capable of generating a sentiment of what is common to all of us and shared through a gaze cast on the seemingly and distant















