Artist Statement
Michelle Sank has been living and working in the UK since 1987. Her photographs have been exhibited and published extensively in England, Europe, Australia and Mexico, South Africa and the U.S.A.
She has undertaken numerous commissions for prominent galleries and magazines in Europe and the USA. In 2007 she won third prize in the National Portrait Gallery’s Photographic Prize in London, seen as the leading showcase for contemporary portrait photography worldwide . In 2010 she was the Single Image Winner in the International Photographic Award, the British Journal of Photography.
Process Statement
Sank's practice is concerned with the notion of encountering, collecting, and re-telling. She is interested in creating sociological landscapes, interplays of human form and location that are significant in their visual, sociological and psychological nuances.
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