Laura Pannack
UK
Laura Pannack is a London-based photographic artist. Her practice investigates the space between fact and feeling, rooted in analogue photography - primarily medium and large format - and expanded through collage, mixed media, and experimental techniques. Grounded in the tradition of social documentary portraiture, her work seeks to stretch the boundaries of narrative and authorship, creating images that are as much about internal landscapes as external realities. A passion for psychology and science runs through her process, shaping how she observes, connects, and collaborates. She is drawn to transitional states - adolescence, emotional thresholds, and unseen tensions. Storytelling is both her subject and method, and she works over long periods, allowing ideas and relationships to unfold organically. By merging tactile processes with conceptual inquiry, she aims to create images that resonate with ambiguity. She believes mystery and silence are key to allowing space for reflection, and her images strive to hold poetic, intimate moments that invite connection as much as conversation.
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The Journey Home
Making our way home from school is a simple, nostalgic, universal activity. In South Africa - a country with the greatest social divide and the fastest-growing youth population in the world - this daily commute carries its own challenges. Created in dialogue with young people from four local NGOs, this project uses workshops to build relationships with young people and explore this journey to and from school We use analogue photography, drawings, collage, and cyanotypes to unravel the experiences of young people living in volatile environments Cameras change hands, perspectives shift, and dialogue replaces observation. Each frame becomes a shared act of authorship, revealing a language shaped by proximity, humour, and survival. Together we walk the journey to and from school: an anonymous space free of adults, a no-man’s land where friendship or solitary reflection rules.

