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The Tide-less Sea: The Black Sea.

This is a story of the people of six countries, whose lives are linked together by vast landlocked sea.

The Black Sea is a sea on the borders of the European Union.

For thousands of years a diversity of cultures have lived along the Black Sea littoral. The sea itself has both divided peoples and cultures, but it has also provided a means to bring them together.

Named Pontus Exinus ('the inhospitable sea'), the Black Sea has always been navigated and its shores colonized.

From the Greeks,  the Ottomans, to the recent collapse of the Soviet Union, the Black Sea witnessed often-tumultuous religious and political change.

The Black Sea has sat at the centre of three major empires, with the sea at the centre of their strategic aims.

But this is also a place steeped with myth, legend and literature.

In the face of countless conquests, the people of the Black Sea have endured, and today, represent a rich mixture of cultures and identities.

Vanessa Winship 1960 yılında İngiltere’de doğdu. Londra Teknik Okulu film, video ve fotoğrafçılık bölümünden dereceyle mezun olduktan sonra Londra İletişim Fakültesi’nden foto muhabirliği ihtisas diploması aldı. Vanessa fotoğrafçı olarak çalıştığı Paris’teki VU ajansı tarafından temsil ediliyor. Vanessa hemen hemen 10 yıl Balkanlar ve Türkiye’de yaşadı ve çalıştı. Fotoğraflarında,  tarihin nasıl anlatıldığı ve memleket ve kimlikle ilgili fikirlere odaklanır. Çalışmaları uluslararası olarak tanınmıştır. İki tane Dünya Basın Ödülü birinciliği, Leica Oskar Barnack’tan bir onur ödülü ve Ulusal Portre Galerisi’nden Yılın Fotografik Portre Ödülü finalistliği mevcut. Sony Dünya Fotoğrafçılık Ödülü L’Iris D’Or 2008’in de sahibidir.

Çalışması Visa pour L’Image, Rencontres d’Arles ve Avrupa’da pek çok kişisel sergide gösterime sunuldu.

Vanessa kariyerinin başlangıcında öğretmen olarak çalıştı ve geçmiş yıllarda pek çok kurum tarafından danışman ve öğretmen olarak davet edildi.

Temmuz 2008’de, Türkiye’deki kırsal kesimde yaşayan öğrenci kızlara ait “Tatlı Şeyler” adlı çalışmasıyla ilgili bir monografisini yayınlayacak. Aynı ay Rencontres d’Arles’de (Fransa’nın Arles şehrinde her yıl düzenlenen bir fotoğraf etkinliği) kişisel bir sergisi olacak.

Vanessa Londra ve İstanbul arasında yaşamakta.

 
About Vanessa WINSHIP
 

Vanessa Winship was born in United Kingdom  (1960) After completing a BA in film, video and photography at the Polytechnic of Central London, and a post graduate diploma in photojournalism at the London College of Communication, Vanessa has worked as a photographer, and is represented by Agence VU in Paris, France.

Vanessa has lived and worked in the Balkans and Turkey for almost a decade.

In her imagery she focuses on how history is told and in ideas about land and identity.

Her work has been recognised internationally. She has two first prize World Press Awards, an Honourable mention from Leica’s Oskar Barnack, and a finalist in the annual Photographic Portrait Award from the National Portrait Gallery, London.

She received the Sony World Photography Award photograph of the year: L’Iris D’Or  2008

She has recently published a monograph commissioned by Mare in Germany for her work from the Black Sea, which has recently been awarded the Orvieto book prize for reportage in Italy.

Her work has been screened at the Visa pour L’Image and Rencontres d’Arles, and has been exhibited, in several solo exhibitions in Europe.

Vanessa worked as a teacher during the early part of her career and has been invited as mentor and teacher by several institutions in recent years.

She will publish “Sweet Nothings” a monograph of her work about rural schoolgirls in Turkey, in July 2008 and will have a solo exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles the same month.

Vanessa lives between London and Istanbul

 
Çeviri (translated by) : Berna AKCAN
 

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