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Snow, the new monograph by Vanessa Winship, is a body of work made in rural Ohio. Winship found something special in the area that drew her back on repeated trips to a particular landscape and, notably, a particular season. We present an extract from the book in which her pictures are accompanied by a story by Jem Poster of a fictional encounter between a photographer and her subject.
An exhibition of Winship’s work opens at Huxley Parlour in London on 16 March
The following piece of fiction by the poet and novelist Jem Poster is taken from Snow, and tells of a female portrait photographer and her recalcitrant subject. But this character is not Vanessa Winship, and the sitter is not someone in a Winship photograph ...
As I drive out of town the wind is rising, whipping the powdery snow from the roadside shrubs and sending it whirling across the blacktop. I know what I’m looking for but I see the sign a moment too late. The surface is treacherous. I let the car slow to walking pace before I brake.
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