Sunday 10 August
5pm
Photographers and curators Vanessa Winship and George Georgiou will be in conversation with photographer Justin Sutcliffe about Winship’s new exhibition, “And Time Folds” at kollectiv. They will also discuss their collaborative work, their creative processes and the experience of sharing personal and professional lives.
Vanessa Winship HonFRPS is a British photographer who works on long-term projects of portrait, landscape, reportage and documentary photography. She met her husband, photographer and curator George Georgiou on their degree course at the Polytechnic of Central London and ever since, the couple’s photographic collaborated on curatorial work, as well as numerous exhibitions and publications.
Winship is a visual storyteller who is conscious of the power that words have. In her publications, she uses words poetically and sparingly, to draw our intention to context and mood set in the photograph.
Winship's first mid career survey, Vanessa Winship was held at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid in 2014 and toured across Spain, ending in Milan in Italy.
Her first major UK solo show, And Time Folds took place at the Barbican Art Gallery, London in 2018. Her work has been exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery and prominently at the Rencontres d'Arles in France together with many other international exhibitions.
Winship has won two World Press Photo Awards; 'Photographer of the Year' at the Sony World Photography Awards; the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award (the first woman to do so) and in 2018, received an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. She is a member of Agence Vu photography agency.
George Georgiou is a British photographer and photojournalist. Over the last decade George has photographed extensively in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Turkey, where his work focused on identity and people caught between communities, cultures and ideologies. Preferring to concentrate on long term projects, George spent time living and working in Serbia, Greece and Turkey.
His work in Turkey led to a series of photographs titled Fault Lines/Turkey/East/West, which has led to several exhibitions and a book.
Faultlines: Turkey East West, his exploration of a country poised geographically and symbolically between Europe and Asia, was published in 2010 and parts of this project were included in the prestigious 'New Photography 2011' exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
His work is collected by several institutions and private collectors including the Museum of Modern Art and the Elton John collection.
James Sutcliffe is a portrait photographer and documentary journalist. His recent exhibitions include:
Leonardo, Experience A Masterpiece - National Gallery London 2019-20
Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize - 2015 (the opening two works of the exhibition)
Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize - 2014
This was Once Sea - July 2014 and July 2015 (solo exhibition)
Portrait Salon - 2013
Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize - 2012
After the Wave - 2005 and 2006 (photographs of the Indian Ocean Tsunami)
AOP - 2004. Five Thousand Days - 2004
World Press Photo - 2003
This is the first opportunity to ever see Vanessa Winship’s work exhibited in Folkestone.
Sunday 10 August
5pm
Photographers and curators Vanessa Winship and George Georgiou will be in conversation with photographer Justin Sutcliffe about Winship’s new exhibition, “And Time Folds” at kollectiv. They will also discuss their collaborative work, their creative processes and the experience of sharing personal and professional lives.
Vanessa Winship HonFRPS is a British photographer who works on long-term projects of portrait, landscape, reportage and documentary photography. She met her husband, photographer and curator George Georgiou on their degree course at the Polytechnic of Central London and ever since, the couple’s photographic collaborated on curatorial work, as well as numerous exhibitions and publications.
Winship is a visual storyteller who is conscious of the power that words have. In her publications, she uses words poetically and sparingly, to draw our intention to context and mood set in the photograph.
Winship's first mid career survey, Vanessa Winship was held at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid in 2014 and toured across Spain, ending in Milan in Italy.
Her first major UK solo show, And Time Folds took place at the Barbican Art Gallery, London in 2018. Her work has been exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery and prominently at the Rencontres d'Arles in France together with many other international exhibitions.
Winship has won two World Press Photo Awards; 'Photographer of the Year' at the Sony World Photography Awards; the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award (the first woman to do so) and in 2018, received an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. She is a member of Agence Vu photography agency.
George Georgiou is a British photographer and photojournalist. Over the last decade George has photographed extensively in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Turkey, where his work focused on identity and people caught between communities, cultures and ideologies. Preferring to concentrate on long term projects, George spent time living and working in Serbia, Greece and Turkey.
His work in Turkey led to a series of photographs titled Fault Lines/Turkey/East/West, which has led to several exhibitions and a book.
Faultlines: Turkey East West, his exploration of a country poised geographically and symbolically between Europe and Asia, was published in 2010 and parts of this project were included in the prestigious 'New Photography 2011' exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
His work is collected by several institutions and private collectors including the Museum of Modern Art and the Elton John collection.
James Sutcliffe is a portrait photographer and documentary journalist. His recent exhibitions include:
Leonardo, Experience A Masterpiece - National Gallery London 2019-20
Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize - 2015 (the opening two works of the exhibition)
Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize - 2014
This was Once Sea - July 2014 and July 2015 (solo exhibition)
Portrait Salon - 2013
Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize - 2012
After the Wave - 2005 and 2006 (photographs of the Indian Ocean Tsunami)
AOP - 2004. Five Thousand Days - 2004
World Press Photo - 2003
This is the first opportunity to ever see Vanessa Winship’s work exhibited in Folkestone.
