Laura Pannack (born 12 June 1985) is a British social documentary and portrait photographer, based in London. Pannack's work is often of children and teenagers. Her work has been shown in three solo exhibitions and contributed to a couple of publications. She has received a number of awards, including a first place in the

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Awards in 2010, the Vic Odden Award from the

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in 2012, and the

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New Work Award in 2014.

Education and career

Monica in a classroom in Oxfam's girls' education project, Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan

Pannack gained a degree in editorial photography at the

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; studied a foundation course in painting at

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College of Art, London; and studied a foundation course at

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. In 2011 Pannack was included in ''

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s ''Ones to Watch'' list and in 2013 in The Magenta Foundation's ''Emerging Photographers'' list. She works commercially and on self initiated personal projects, her subjects often being "young people and teenagers". Her work has been a feature in ''

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,'' ''Esquire Kazakhstan'', ''Hotshoe,'' ''

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''. She has worked commercially for The Mental Health Foundation, Save the Children, Oxfam, Samsung, Barclays and Vodafone. Pannack's notable personal projects include ''The Untitled'', ''Young Love'' and ''Young British Naturists'', For her personal work Pannack largely uses a film camera, at one time a

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Publications

Publications by Pannack

*''Against The Dying of The Light.'' Collection du Prix HSBC pour la Photographie. Arles, France:

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, 2017. . With a text in French by , translated into English by Thyago Nogueira. Published on the occasion of the Prix HSBC Pour La Photographie 2017.

Publications with contributions by Pannack

*''Hijacked III: Australia / United Kingdom.'' Cottesloe, W.A.: Big City Press; Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2012. . Exhibition catalogue. *''Great Britons of Photography Vol.1: The Dench Dozen.'' Eastbourne, UK: Hungry Eye, 2016. . Edited by

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. With photographs by and transcripts of interviews between Dench and Pannack, Jocelyn Bain Hogg, Marcus Bleasdale,

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Martin Parr Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in p ...

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, and

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. 160 pages. Edition of 500 copies.

Exhibitions

*''A Collection'',

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, Cardiff, 2011 *''Young British Naturists'', One and a Half Gallery, London, 2012 *''Young British Naturists'', White Cloth Gallery, Leeds, 2013 *''Youth Without Age, Life Without Death: Chapter 1,'' Francesca Maffeo Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK, 2016.

Awards

*2008: 1st place, Hotshot International Next Perspective Award *2009: Winner, Magenta Foundation award *2009: 3rd prize, UK Single Image,

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Award *2009: Finalist,

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, for "Gemma" *2010: 1st place, Portraits Singles,

Awards, for "Graham" *2010: Best in Show, Foto8 Host Summer Show, for "Shay" *2010: Winner, Magenta Foundation award *2011: 1st place Fine Art Nudes category,

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, Lucie Foundation, for ''Young British Naturists'' *2012: Vic Odden Award,

, Bath, UK *2014: John Kobal New Work Award, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London for "Chayla in Shul" *2014: Hospital Club 100,

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, London *2017: Winner, with Melanie Wenger, Prix HSBC pour la Photographie,

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. *2018: Women Seen By Women award, Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, for ''Purity,'' a long-term project on people in an Orthodox Jewish community *2021: Winner, Portfolio category,

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References

External links

*
"The secret world of young British naturists"
– a set of photographs at ''The Guardian''
"Laura Pannack: The Walks"
– 7-minute video following Pannack whilst she works, produced by FullBleed, on YouTube {{DEFAULTSORT:Pannack, Laura Living people 1985 births English women photographers British portrait photographers Alumni of the University of Brighton Alumni of Central Saint Martins 21st-century British photographers Photographers from London 21st-century women photographers 21st-century English women 21st-century English people