Laura Pannack: The Journey Home

Laura Pannack: The Journey Home

Laura Pannack is a multi-award-winning London-based based photographic artist, best known for her portraiture. Her work has been extensively exhibited, and she has won numerous awards for her work, including the Juliet Margaret Cameron Award, the John Kobal Award, the Vic Odden prize, and the HSBC Prix de la Photographie prize. 

Pannack seeks to fully understand the lives of those she captures on film to portray them as truthfully as possible. With a mantra of 'time, trust, and understanding', many of her projects develop over several years, helping her achieve an authentic connection between the subject and herself, that allows her to capture intimacy, shared ideas and experiences of the relationship.

The Journey Home is a document of students in Cape Town who are forced to navigate perilous gang-controlled neighbourhoods as they travel to and from school. The project won the Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence and placed first in the annual Sony World Photography Awards Perspectives category.

‘I learn most when I walk with a camera; about myself and the company I share. I engage. I stop mentally. I listen.’ Laura Pannack