Dorcas and Mother in Garden, Burnthouse Lane, Exeter, UK/
Dorcas and her mother had dressed in traditional Nigerian costume to celebrate her father's 40th birthday. They have been in the UK for just a year and this is the house that the council has given them to live in. Her mother is a nurse and her father a chaplain at the local hospital. This is an image from my series "Breathe" documenting during Covid how people are inhabiting and managing private and public spaces in a neighbourhood where I live.
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Biography
Michelle Sank was born in South Africa and currently resides in the UK. Her photographs have been exhibited and published extensively in the UK, 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 and her work has won awards in many prestigious competitions including the Taylor Wessing Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, UK and the British Journal of Photography.
She has 4 published books to date.
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Awards
Winner Taylor Wessing Prize, National Portrait Gallery, UK
Single Image Winner The British Journal of Photography
Single Image Winner Portrait Lens Culture
Winner Single Image Lens International Exposure Awards Winner KLPA Photo Awards
Portrait of Britain, British Journal of Photography
Gold Award,San Francisco International Photographic Exhibition
Honorable Mention Juliet Margaret Cameron Awards
Honorable Mention Unicef
Honorable Mention Lucie Awards
PhotoReview
Centre for Photographic Art.USA
Winner Juliet Margaret Cameron Award
Contemporary Art Society, London
