- Shoots only on film
- often shoots with young people/ makes projects about youth – Young Love, a portrait project documenting young couples, showing their innocence and naivety ‘first love’
- Young Love is a beautiful portrait series, showing the physical intimacy of real young couples.
- Pannack stated that working with young people means she often makes projects about awkwardness and the discomfort of growing up, transition period of being a child to a young adult- teenagers and the events of growing up
- Beautiful project on Brexit commissioned by The British Journal of Photography, used real couples that were effected/ will be effected by the events of Brexit, devision and separation due to being an EU national. She experimented with many different materials to create the divide between the couples and settled on latex because of its neutral tones and its stretchiness. Put a couple on either side of the latex to show their physical separation, but had the couple hold and reach for each other to show the emotional difficulty in trying to stay together. Powerful images. The texture of the latex makes the person on the other side of the work feel almost absent, as if they are a memory that the other person is trying to hold on to.
- She makes folders of the years and keeps all her work in one place
- on going project: Purity – been doing it for 8 years project of Hasidic Jews, she has become close with families and seen how they lived while making images
- Youth Cannot Age, Life without Death
- Uses things such as expired film, using many different film techniques and experiments with materials
Before the lecture, I was a huge fan of Laura Pannack because of her Brexit portraits, I had been them previously and admired the way in which she represented it. I have seen work previously on Brexit (Tereza Cervenova) however these portraits are something very different and beautiful. Personally, I feel that issues relating to Brexit are people lack of humanising the effects that the devision will have. Pannack has used real people and shot them in a close, personal way, and therefore she has made the issues of Brexit personal, the viewer can literally see the people whom it will effect, making the images very emotive. Moreover, hearing Pannack speak about the way in which she tried a lot of different mediums helped in understanding her process, and the importance of experimentation until the correct aesthetic is achieved. Pannack has a very particular style, her use of PORTRA 400 gives all of the images a distinct look, and her framing is interesting as she does a mixture of wide angles and mid portraits. She rarely photographs people very closely.
Pannack seamed to often fixate on youth and the experiences of young people. Her work Young Love is another example of her beautiful portrait making technique. Pannack photographed real life young couples who said that they were each others first love. As well as being beautiful portraits, Pannack has managed to capture a part of these young peoples lives that they themselves will never forget, and many people can empathise with. When people are young they view their first relationship as a fairy tale, and Pannack had managed to capture this dreamy closeness within these young couples. This work is a great representation of young British people who are in love, the portraits are intimate however all shot outside. By taking her subjects into nature she has added to this fairy tale idea of being young, in love and in nature. There is something so innocent about these portraits; something that feels fragile, which is a good representation of young people in love.
Laura Pannack was very interesting when we spoke about her work, her patience with all of her projects was very inspiring, as she takes her time and makes sure that she gets to know her subjects and makes them comfortable before making work with them. I feel that this has enhanced the quality of her portraits, and the subjects are comfortable enough to share these moments with Pannack. They are also looking into the lens in some, which shows her ability to make the subject feel at ease, and important enough in the work so that they understand that they are the focus. I would like to use this to think about the way in which I shoot; whether I make my subjects comfortable or uncomfortable and I wonder what the different effect on my images these two would make. I would like to experiment with comfort when shooting with Rowan and Jack, as the process is uncomfortable, I would like to try and make it as comfortable as possible, then as uncomfortable as possible to see what the different results in my images are, and whether the audience would be able to tell the atmosphere of the shooting process.
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