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Sunset, Promenade, Sea Point, South Africa, 2022

Sunset, Promenade, Sea Point, South Africa, 2022

Michelle Sank

Sunset, Promenade, Sea Point, South Africa, 2022 by Michelle Sank is offered as part of Side's 50x50 fundraising campaign. All profits from this sale will go to the AmberSide Trust (registered charity number: 1160760) to help fund Side’s ongoing community work, finance the continued care of the UNESCO-registered AmberSide Collection, enable future exhibitions and partnerships, and guarantee continued public access to documentary photography in the North East.

About the print:

"Ballade is a poetic homage to my birthplace, Cape Town. My strongest memories are of the Sea Point Promenade there and its accompanying Pavilion Swimming Pool where I frequented the long walkway and its bordering vast grass areas through all of my formative years. I was born there, and my recall is one of tableaus transpiring through play, encounters and festivities. The pool, the walkway, the beaches and the green areas continue to serve as stage sets within which diverse performances unfolded. Returning to Cape Town in 2022, I was once again drawn to these spaces where little seems to have changed in terms of structure and recreation but existing now with a celebration of cultural and social diversity post the Apartheid Era." - Michelle Sank

Image Copyright: © Michelle Sank

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DETAILS: Available in a limited edition of fifty copies

Type: A4 archival C-type, printed on Hahnemuhle Baryta Fine Art paper

Size: A4 (210x297mm)

Michelle Sank

Michelle Sank was born in South Africa and settled in the UK in 1987. She cites this background of growing up during Apartheid and being the child of immigrant parents as informing her interest in sub-cultures and the exploration of contemporary social issues and challenges. Her crafted portraits meld place and person creating sociological, visual and psychological landscapes and narratives. Known for her work on youth culture, her practice has expanded into long term projects documenting communities and cultures in depth. Sank undertook a BA Fine Art Degree at The Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town where her work was picked up by David Goldblatt who became a lifelong mentor. In leaving South Africa in the late 70’s she had a big gap in her career redefining her practice after many years when she completed her MA at De Montford University, Leicester in 2001. Her photographs have been exhibited and published extensively in the UK, Europe, Australia and Mexico, South Africa and the U.S.A. and her imagery is held in private and permanent collections worldwide to include Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, The Museum of Youth Culture, UK, Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. She has undertaken continuous commissions and residencies for prominent galleries and magazines in Europe and the USA and her work has won awards in numerous prestigious competitions to include the Taylor Wessing Prize, British Journal of Photography, Head on Foundation, IPA awards, Lens Culture and The Juliet Margaret Cameron award for Female Photographers. She was recently a winner in The Portrait of Britain and in 2024 she won the Open Portrait section in the Sony World Photography Awards. She has just been granted an Honorary Fellowship by The Royal Photographic Society.   Sank has five published books to date her latest being “Burnthouse Lane” published by Dewi Lewis, 2024 – a celebratory account of an historic working class community in Exeter, Devon, UK.

50x50

50x50 is a fundraising print sale that offers the public a chance to acquire affordable, high quality, photographic images whilst supporting Side - the the only arts organisation in the United Kingdom devoted to documentary film and photography centred on working-class life, from the North East and beyond.
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