{"id":4127,"date":"2014-06-18T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T09:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2014-06-18T08:57:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T08:57:28","slug":"4127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=4127","title":{"rendered":"Singing about Vanessa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great to see a fine article by Sean O’Hagan, Vanessa Winship: the great, unsung chronicler of the world’s outsiders<\/a> in The Guardian.\u00a0 I’ve been telling people for quite a while about her photography\u00a0 – back in 2008 I wrote in a piece about not going to Arles that – judging from the previews,<\/p>\n

the outstanding pictures were by Vanessa Winship<\/a><\/strong>, whose work has deservedly done well in several competitions in recent years (and her \u2018Albanian Landscapes<\/em>\u2018 was screened at Arles in 2003)<\/p>\n

and not long after, looking at a photo diary about the festival I also noted that so far “only Vanessa Winship’s exhibition seems worth more than a cursory glance<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

There are quite a few more mentions of her over the years on this site, particularly Sweet Nothings \u2013 Vanessa Winship<\/a> (2009) and Dancing In Mourning Across America<\/a> (2013) which are perhaps still worth reading. This piece seems to be the 14th time I’ve written about her here and I think I had mentioned her when I wrote elsewhere. Also worth reading is Michael Grieve’s review of ‘she dances on Jackson’ in 1000 Words<\/a>, which I also linked to in an earlier post.<\/p>\n

So I can only echo the sentiment under the headline of O’Hagan’s Guardian blog:<\/p>\n

“From Mississippi to the Black Sea, Winship’s poetic, masterful photographs show how hard it is for people to belong … so why don’t British galleries acknowledge her as this large Madrid retrospective does? She deserves it”<\/p>\n

Though I’m afraid the explanation is unfortunately rather simple. She is a real photographer, and there is no major British gallery with a real interest in photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great to see a fine article by Sean O’Hagan, Vanessa Winship: the great, unsung chronicler of the world’s outsiders in The Guardian.\u00a0 I’ve been telling people for quite a while about her photography\u00a0 – back in 2008 I wrote in a piece about not going to Arles that – judging from the previews, the outstanding … Continue reading Singing about Vanessa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4130,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions\/4130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}