I was pleased to see Vanessa Winship, a British Photographer who lives in Turkey, win the Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year. Her tender moving portraits of schoolgirls in Eastern Turkey are richly deserving of recognition.
No doubt Elliott Erwitt, heading the judging panel, helped to secure Vanessa her prize. It was good to see solid classical skill with a camera winning over contemporary fads.
She previously won a World Press Photo 1st prize for a portraiture story.
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