It's here! Michelle Sank's Eagerly Anticipated ‘Burnthouse Lane’
Elliott Gallery is excited to announce the release of the latest book by Michelle Sank, Burnthouse Lane, and to invite you to the official book launch.
Thursday 27th June 2024, from 17.30 to 19.30
at Elliot Gallery | Tussen de Bogen 91 | Amsterdam
RSVP below, meet Michelle, and be one of the first to see Burnthouse Lane! Michelle will also be signing copies.
Michelle Sank’s latest book with the captivating images of Burnthouse Lane estate, a close knit community and landscape in Devon, UK, is published by Dewi Lewis Publishing.
“Sank’s images aren’t covert or snatched, and don’t feel judgemental either. The people she photographed knew she was taking their portrait, each image is the result of a mutual meeting and collaboration between subject and photographer”
Diane Smyth, foreword, Burnthouse Lane
About the work and book, she says: “It is this positivity that I wanted to highlight. I have always been drawn to this area because of the way it embraces diversity and the individuality that emanates from this – both in the way people express themselves but also how this is reflected in the adornment of their properties which for the most part have identical fabric, but which are charged with a personal stamp in the gardens, in the windows and even in the wall faces - my use of strong colour and light accentuating this sense of celebration.”
About Michelle Sank
Michelle Sank is a renowned South African photographer who moved to the UK in the 1980s. She left her homeland feeling alienated by apartheid, but recently returned and is documenting the exciting changes she sees there.
Michelle has exhibited and published all over the world, including in the USA, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Canada, The Channel Islands, Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong and The Netherlands. She has won numerous awards and accolades including the category ‘Portrait of Britain’ by the British Journal of Photography in 2020. She was recently one of the finalists of the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024, and the winner in the Open Competition of the Sony World Photography Awards (Portraiture category) with her stunning portrait ‘Zenande, Sinawe, Zinathi and Buhle’, part of her latest series ‘Ballade’, a poetic homage to her birthplace, Cape Town.
We are very excited to be showing Ballade at Elliott Gallery, starting January 2025.