Laura Pannack

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Pannack was born in Kingston upon Thames, southwest London.

She gained a degree in editorial photography at the University of Brighton; studied a foundation course in painting at Central Saint Martins College of Art, London; and studied a foundation course at London College of Communication.{{Cite web |title=Laura Pannack - Bio |url=https://www.laurapannack.com/about-1/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180908200744/https://www.laurapannack.com/about-1/ |archive-date=8 September 2018 |access-date=9 April 2017 |website=laurapannack.com}}

Pannack works commercially and on self initiated personal projects, her subjects often being "young people and teenagers".{{cite web |date=2011 |title=Ones to Watch: Laura Pannack |url=http://www.creativereview.co.uk/back-issues/creative-review/2011/january/laura-pannack |url-access=subscription |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128014922/http://www.creativereview.co.uk/back-issues/creative-review/2011/january/laura-pannack |archive-date=28 January 2013 |access-date=2 April 2013 |website=Creative Review}} Her work has been a feature in magazines.{{cite web |last=Schiller |first=Jakob |date=22 March 2013 |title=Chess Boxing Demands a Rare Breed of Human: The 'Nerdlete' |url=https://www.wired.com/2013/03/laurra-pannack-chess-boxers/#slideid-18716 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204170535/https://www.wired.com/2013/03/laurra-pannack-chess-boxers/#slideid-18716 |archive-date=4 February 2023 |access-date=13 May 2013 |work=Wired}}{{cite web |title=Молодо – зелено |trans-title=Young is green |url=http://esquire.kz/photo/156 |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103060622/http://esquire.kz/photo/156 |archive-date=3 November 2013 |access-date=13 May 2013 |website=Esquire Kazakhstan |language=ru}}

Her personal projects include The Untitled,{{cite web |last=Brook |first=Pete |date=12 August 2010 |title=Striking Teenage Portraits Boost Young Photog's Career |url=https://www.wired.com/2010/08/laura-pannack/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625182250/https://www.wired.com/2010/08/laura-pannack/ |archive-date=25 June 2022 |access-date=2 April 2013 |work=Wired}} Young Love and Young British Naturists,{{cite news |last=Barkham |first=Patrick |date=30 October 2010 |title=Exposed: Young British nudists |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/oct/30/young-nudists-photographs |url-status=live |access-date=1 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230811195947/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/oct/30/young-nudists-photographs |archive-date=11 August 2023}}{{cite news |last=Jacques |first=Adam |date=30 October 2010 |title=Portfolio: Laura Pannack |work=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/portfolio-laura-pannack-7678959.html |url-status=live |access-date=1 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031172108/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/portfolio-laura-pannack-7678959.html |archive-date=31 October 2017}} For her personal work Pannack largely uses a film camera,{{cite news |last=Jacques |first=Adam |date=19 February 2012 |title=Portfolio: Film stars |work=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/portfolio-film-stars-6940880.html |url-status=live |access-date=2 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170409200647/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/portfolio-film-stars-6940880.html |archive-date=9 April 2017}} at one time a Bronica 645 medium format camera and more recently a Hasselblad 6×6.

In 2011 Pannack was included in Creative Review's Ones to Watch list and in 2013 in The Magenta Foundation's Emerging Photographers list.{{cite web |date=2013 |title=Flash Forward 2013 - Competition Catalogue |url=http://www.magentafoundation.org/books/flash-forward-2013/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231109002823/https://www.magentafoundation.org/publication/flash-forward-2013/ |archive-date=9 November 2023 |access-date=5 May 2013 |website=Magenta Foundation |publisher= |type=Book order page}}

• Against The Dying of The Light. Collection du Prix HSBC pour la Photographie. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2017. {{ISBN|978-2-330-07743-3}}. With a text in French by Christian Caujolle, translated into English by Thyago Nogueira. Published on the occasion of the Prix HSBC Pour La Photographie 2017.
• The Cracker. Multistory, 2019. Magazine format. Edition of 25 copies.{{Cite web |last=Zoo |first=Alice |date=4 October 2019 |title=Laura Pannack documents the youth of a neglected scrubland |url=https://www.1854.photography/2019/10/laura-pannack-the-cracker/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803025446/https://www.1854.photography/2019/10/laura-pannack-the-cracker/ |archive-date=3 August 2022 |access-date=8 November 2023 |website=British Journal of Photography |language=en-GB}}{{Cite news |date=12 June 2019 |title=Vapes, snakes and fireworks: hanging out at the Cracker – in pictures |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/jun/12/vapes-snakes-fireworks-the-cracker-laura-pannack-west-midlands-in-pictures |url-status=live |access-date=8 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208072717/http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/jun/12/vapes-snakes-fireworks-the-cracker-laura-pannack-west-midlands-in-pictures |archive-date=8 December 2022 |issn=0261-3077}}
• Youth (Vol. 1). Polite, 2023. Postcard set.
• Youth Without Age and Life Without Death. Guest, 2023.{{Cite news |last=Adams |first=Tim |date=2023-11-19 |title=The big picture: in search of a land where time stands still |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/nov/19/the-big-picture-time-stands-still-romania-laura-pannack-youth-without-age |access-date=2023-11-19 |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |first=Kalum|last=Carter |date=2023-11-13 |title=Romanian folktale brought to life in a stunning new photobook |url=https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/romanian-folktale-brought-to-life-in-a-stunning-new-photobook |access-date=2023-11-19 |website=Digital Camera World |language=en}}

• Hijacked III: Australia / United Kingdom. Cottesloe, W.A.: Big City Press; Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2012. {{ISBN|9783868282856}}. Exhibition catalogue.
• Great Britons of Photography Vol.1: The Dench Dozen. Eastbourne, UK: Hungry Eye, 2016. {{ISBN|978-0-9926405-2-1}}. Edited by Peter Dench. With photographs by and transcripts of interviews between Dench and Pannack, among others. 160 pages. Edition of 500 copies.

• A Collection, Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, 2011{{cite web |title=A Collection – Laura Pannack |url=http://www.visitcardiff.com/events/calendar-highlights/search-products/a-collection-laura-pannack-p150301 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130412031826/http://www.visitcardiff.com/events/calendar-highlights/search-products/a-collection-laura-pannack-p150301 |archive-date=12 April 2013 |access-date=2 April 2013 |website=Visit Cardiff}}
• Young British Naturists, One and a Half Gallery, London, 2012{{cite news |last=Sean |first=O'Hagan |date=9 May 2012 |title=Saatchi captures the confusion of contemporary photography |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/may/09/saatchi-photography-out-of-focus |url-status=live |access-date=2 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130090352/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/may/09/saatchi-photography-out-of-focus |archive-date=30 November 2021}}
• Young British Naturists, White Cloth Gallery, Leeds, 2013{{cite web |date=2013 |title=Laura Pannack, Young British Naturist Exhibition Launch |url=http://www.leedsinspired.co.uk/events/laura-pannack-young-british-naturist-exhibition-launch |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130717084453/http://www.leedsinspired.co.uk/events/laura-pannack-young-british-naturist-exhibition-launch |archive-date=17 July 2013 |access-date=16 July 2013 |website=Leeds Inspired}}
• Youth Without Age, Life Without Death: Chapter 1, Francesca Maffeo Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, 2016{{cite news |last=King |first=Alex |date=25 October 2016 |title=The cycle of life and death in the Romanian countryside |newspaper=Huck |url=http://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/cycle-life-death-romanian-countryside/ |url-status=dead |access-date=9 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709185859/http://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/cycle-life-death-romanian-countryside/ |archive-date=9 July 2018}}{{cite web |last=Harding |first=Charlotte |date=21 October 2016 |title=Photographing the folkloric mythologies of rural Romania – British Journal of Photography |url=http://www.bjp-online.com/2016/10/photographing-the-folkloric-mythologies-of-rural-romania/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020194618/http://www.bjp-online.com/2016/10/photographing-the-folkloric-mythologies-of-rural-romania/ |archive-date=20 October 2020 |access-date=9 July 2018 |website=British Journal of Photography}}

• 2008: 1st place, Hotshot International Next Perspective Award{{cite news |date=24 August 2010 |title=Laura Pannack |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7961512/Laura-Pannack.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520120940/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7961512/Laura-Pannack.html |archive-date=20 May 2022}}
• 2009: Winner, Magenta Foundation award
• 2009: 3rd prize, UK Single Image, LensCulture Award{{cite web |date=2009 |title=Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2009 — Single Image Awards |url=http://www.lensculture.com/awards-2009-si.html?thisPic=3 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607162818/http://www.lensculture.com/awards-2009-si.html?thisPic=3 |archive-date=7 June 2013 |access-date=2 April 2013 |website=LensCulture |publisher=}}
• 2009: Finalist, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, for "Gemma"
• 2010: 1st place, Portraits Singles, World Press Photo Awards, for "Graham"{{Cite news |date=2010-02-12 |title=World Press Photo Awards 2010 |url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2010/feb/12/photography-pressandpublishing |access-date=2024-04-24 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
• 2010: Best in Show, Foto8 Host Summer Show, for "Shay"
• 2010: Winner, Magenta Foundation award{{cite book |last=Pritchard | first=Lisa | title=Setting Up a Successful Photography Business: How to be a Professional Photographer | date=19 April 2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nn4Zt5SBcswC&dq=laura+pannack++Setting+up+a+Successful+Photography+Business&pg=PA134|access-date=2 April 2013 |publisher=A & C Black Publishers Ltd|location=London|isbn=978-1-408125-77-9|page=134| quote =Laura Pannack ... twice winner of the Magenta Foundation Award}}
• 2011: 1st place Fine Art Nudes category, International Photography Awards, Lucie Foundation, for Young British Naturists{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=IPA 2011 Winner {{!}} ybn {{!}} Photographer: Laura Pannack {{!}} Prize: 1st Place / Fine Art/Nudes |url=https://photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-32124-11 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920204851/https://www.photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-32124-11 |archive-date=20 September 2020 |access-date=8 November 2023 |website=International Photography Awards}}
• 2011: 2nd place Professional Advertising, Other, International Photography Awards, Lucie Foundation, for Children Do Not Separate{{cite web |date=2011 |title=IPA Winners: IPA 2011: Professional Advertising, Other |url=http://photoawards.com/winner/?compName=IPA+2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425030215/https://photoawards.com/winner/?compName=IPA+2011 |archive-date=25 April 2017 |access-date=24 April 2017 |website=International Photography Awards}}{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=IPA 2011 Winner {{!}} Children Do Not Separate {{!}} Photographer: Laura Pannack {{!}} Prize: 2nd Place / Advertising/Other_AD |url=https://photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-32116-11 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231109045258/https://photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-32116-11 |archive-date=9 November 2023 |access-date=8 November 2023 |website=International Photography Awards}}
• 2012: Vic Odden Award, Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK{{cite web |title=Vic Odden Award |url=http://www.rps.org/about/awards/history-and-recipients/vic-odden-award |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020234643/http://www.rps.org/about/awards/history-and-recipients/vic-odden-award |archive-date=20 October 2019 |access-date=24 April 2018 |website=Royal Photographic Society}}
• 2014: John Kobal New Work Award, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London for "Chayla in Shul"{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Chayla in Shul by Laura Pannack - John Kobal New Work Award |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2014/taylor-wessing-photographic-portrait-prize-2014/chayla-in-shul |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231109050448/https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2014/taylor-wessing-photographic-portrait-prize-2014/chayla-in-shul |archive-date=9 November 2023 |access-date=16 November 2017 |website=National Portrait Gallery, London}}{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=The John Kobal New Work Award |url=http://www.johnkobal.org/pages/newworkaward.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123013644/http://www.johnkobal.org/pages/newworkaward.php |archive-date=23 November 2018 |access-date=18 January 2018 |website=John Kobal Foundation |quote=The winner of the 2014 John Kobal New Work Award in association with the Taylor Wessing Award at the National Portrait Gallery was Laura Pannack.}}
• 2017: Winner, with Melanie Wenger, {{Ill|Prix HSBC pour la Photographie|fr}}, HSBC France."[http://prixhsbc.evenium.com/site/prix-hsbc-pour-la-photographie-development-module/laureates Lauréats 2017]" HSBC France. Retrieved 14 February 2017{{Cite web |last=Weidmann |first=Ericka |date=31 January 2017 |title=Prix HSBC pour la Photographie 2017 : Laura Pannack et Mélanie Wenger, une édition qui se conjugue au féminin |trans-title=HSBC Prize for Photography 2017: Laura Pannack and Mélanie Wenger, an edition that combines with the feminine |url=https://www.9lives-magazine.com/8082/2017/01/31/prix-hsbc-pour-la-photographie-2017-laura-pannack-et-melanie-wenger-une-edition-qui-se-conjugue-au-feminin/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626082136/https://www.9lives-magazine.com/8082/2017/01/31/prix-hsbc-pour-la-photographie-2017-laura-pannack-et-melanie-wenger-une-edition-qui-se-conjugue-au-feminin/ |archive-date=26 June 2022 |access-date=9 November 2023 |website=9 Lives Magazine |language=fr-FR}}
• 2018: Women Seen By Women award, Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, for Purity, a long-term project on people in an Orthodox Jewish community{{cite web |last=Clifford |first=Eva |date=17 January 2018 |title=Laura Pannack wins the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers |url=http://www.bjp-online.com/2018/01/pannackjmcaward/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231109223820/https://www.1854.photography/2018/01/pannackjmcaward/ |archive-date=9 November 2023 |access-date=18 January 2018 |website=British Journal of Photography |publisher=}}
• 2021: Winner, Portfolio category, Sony World Photography Awards{{cite web |last=Walker |first=Ella |date=15 April 2021 |title=10 stunning images from the Sony Photographer of the Year awards |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/craig-easton-sony-instagram-british-nature-b1831733.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108021637/https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/craig-easton-sony-instagram-british-nature-b1831733.html |archive-date=8 November 2023 |accessdate=15 April 2021 |website=The Independent}}
• 2023: Camera Clara Prize{{cite web |last=|first=|date= |title=La photographie à tout prix. Une année de prix photographiques à la BnF|url=https://www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/la-photographie-tout-prix-une-annee-de-prix-photographiques-la-bnf |url-status=|archive-url= |archive-date=|accessdate=|website=bnf.fr}}

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• {{Official website|www.laurapannack.com}}
• [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2010/oct/30/photography-young-british-nudists#/?picture=368073009&index=8 "The secret world of young British naturists"] – a set of photographs at The Guardian
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkQoBgeP-e4 "Laura Pannack: The Walks"] – 7-minute video following Pannack whilst she works, produced by FullBleed, on YouTube

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