I heard from Vanessa Winship the other day in response to our "Random Excellence" posting about her. Among other things, she tells me that her ISP has upped the bandwidth of her website (although it's still a bit slow to load for me) because we inundated the site with traffic. So if you had trouble visiting the other day, carve out a little time today and go to her website and look at some of her pictures. I really don't think you'll be disappointed.
Mike
She was featured in the Guardian (UK) in their G2 supplement yesterday, and she mentioned that the above image was one of her favourites.
Posted by: William Wragg | Friday, 27 February 2009 at 07:39 AM
Yesterday The Guardian featured this same picture as "Vanessa Winship's best shot":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/26/vanessa-winship-best-shot
There she talks a little bit on the background of the picture and the project it comes from.
Cheers,
Schmuell
Posted by: Schmuell | Friday, 27 February 2009 at 07:55 AM
I was a repeat customer to her site thats how impressed I was by her work... beautiful, wistful ... liked her earlier work more than her portraits but they are really good too..
Posted by: Jeffrey MacMillan | Friday, 27 February 2009 at 08:02 AM
She definitely deserves the traffic - wonderful images!
Posted by: Rana | Friday, 27 February 2009 at 11:26 AM
Am I the only one who sees some Diane Arbus in Winship? Or is it simply impossible to look at a dark, B&W photograph of two young girls standing side-by-side without thinking of Arbus...?
Posted by: Miserere | Friday, 27 February 2009 at 01:45 PM
Arbus and August Sander combined.
Posted by: John Sarsgard | Friday, 27 February 2009 at 02:37 PM
Frankly said the UI of her website is terrible. The good news is that I had her book on the Black Sea in the mail today :-)
Carsten
Posted by: Carsten Bockermann | Friday, 27 February 2009 at 04:08 PM
I'm overly sensitive to these things, I think, and I didn't think the interface to her web site was that bad. It certainly helped that the images were wonderful.
Now, there was a Czech photographer (whose work I also liked) mentioned on this site last year (?) who had a truly awful web site...
Posted by: mwg | Saturday, 28 February 2009 at 09:05 AM