In “Sweet Nothings” Vanessa Winship has been taking photographs of schoolgirls from the borderlands of Eastern Anatolia.
“I had been living and working in the region for almost a decade, and in Turkey itself for more than four years. I was drawn by ideas of borders and belonging. One enduring image that had always struck me wherever I travelled was the schoolgirls in their little blue dresses, the same in every town, city or village.
I wanted to make a series of portraits of these girls on the borderlands. Knowing their status I wanted to give a space for the girls to have a moment of importance in front of a camera. I decided to use a slower, formal way of making the pictures to create this space. Every frame was made at the same distance to ensure a kind of equality to each girl. I hoped symbol of the uniform, the distance in repetition, and the austerity of the landscape would represent one thing, but I also hoped more than anything, in the expressions of the girls faces, to draw attention to the idea of these young girls poised at the moment “just before”.” - Vanessa Winship
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Sweet Nothings”
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Sweet Nothings”
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Sweet Nothings”
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Sweet Nothings”
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Sweet Nothings”
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