Laura Pannack
She believes in a process built on a shared experience. Using the camera as a bridge Laura curiously ventures into the process with limitless expectations with those she photographs, searching for engagement, connection, and a unique experience.
Her work has been extensively exhibited and published worldwide, including at The National Portrait Gallery, The Houses of Parliament, Somerset House, and the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Laura aims to dig beneath the surface and shift beyond what we think we see.
She is driven by research led, self-initiated projects that push her to grow both as an artist and as an individual.
Many of her projects span over several years allowing the narrative to arise with the development. Largely shooting on analogue film allows her process to be organic rather than being predefined by fixed ideas, introducing chance and fate.
“The work aims to tell and inspire stories. My aim is to connect and emotionally engage with a viewer. I want you to look at my images and see your own story too.”
She believes in a process built on a shared experience. Using the camera as a bridge Laura curiously ventures into the process with limitless expectations with those she photographs, searching for engagement, connection, and a unique experience.
Her work has been extensively exhibited and published worldwide, including at The National Portrait Gallery, The Houses of Parliament, Somerset House, and the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Laura aims to dig beneath the surface and shift beyond what we think we see.
She is driven by research led, self-initiated projects that push her to grow both as an artist and as an individual.
What is nearest seems dissimilar and totally foreign.
Often the most striking similarities are the ones we find – according to travel psychology – on the other side of the world.
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS ( CONDENSED- FULL LIST AVAILABLE ON REQUEST)
1st Place Portraits Singles – World Press Photo Awards 1st Place Best in Show
Terry O’Neill Award
New York Photo Festival Awards
Art of Photography Show San Diego
1st place Fine Art Nudes – Lucies International Professional Photography Awards Best In Show Lucies International Professional Photography Awards
AOP awards
Sony World Photography Award
Royal Photographic Society Vic Odden Award
John Kobal Award – The Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize
Judge World Press Photo Awards
Lens Culture award
Director’s Choice Center Awards
Getty Prestige Grant
Prix HSBC Pour la Photographie Prize
Camera Clara Prize
EXHIBITIONS
International Print Exhibition, University of Brighton Graduate Show Photo Fringe ‘Bystander’ Cork Street Open Show 2009,2010,2011
The Independent Photographers Gallery
International Art of Photography Show, San Diego
Taylor Wessing National Portrait Prize, The National Portrait Gallery
The World Press Photo Contest, The Royal Festival Hall /World Tour
Host Gallery Summer Show
The Magenta Foundation Toronto, Canada
Hereford Photography Festival
Women in Art Photography Taschen London Humble Arts
AOP Awards, The Truman Brewery London
QUAD Gallery Hijacked, Derby, Sydney, Australia
Save The Children Other Lives Touring Exhibition, Houses of Parliament, Somerset House Sony World Photography Awards Somerset House
Passage ForumMeyrin – Geneva
FishBar London- ‘The Walks’
The National Portrait Gallery (Permanent collection)
PhotoLondon 2017
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff Paris 2017
Galleifet art center aix en provence 2017
SOLO SHOWS
Laura Pannack ‘A Collection’ Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff
Young British Naturists, One and a Half Gallery, London
The White Cloth Gallery Leeds
2016 – ‘Youth Without Age, Life Without Death: Chapter 1’ Francesca Maffeo Gallery, UK
MONOLOGUES
The Dying of the light – Acts de Suds
Youth without age life without Death – Guest Editions
