I am thrilled to announce that I am the 2025 recipient of the 2025 LSI Photography Grant for my project The Journey Home.
Look out for my Leica Gallery Show in London during May 2026.
See more details and a link to a video interview here.
CONTACT
Laura Pannack
Tel: +44 (0) 7849 930 708
laura.pannack@gmail.com
Tugboat
+1 646 250 0318
jackie@tugboatusa.com
ABOUT
’I learn most when I walk with a camera; about myself and the company I share. I engage. I stop mentally. I listen.’
Laura Pannack is a London based photographic artist.
Renowned for her portraiture and social documentary work, she seeks to explore the complex relationship between subject and photographer. Her work has been extensively exhibited and published worldwide, including at The National Portrait Gallery, The Houses of Parliament, Somerset House and the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Her artwork has received much acclaim and won numerous awards, among which are the John Kobal Award , Vic Odden prize, World Photo Press Awards, Juliet Margaret Cameron award and the HSBC Prix de la Photographie prize.
Driven by research-led, self-initiated projects, Pannack seeks to fully understand the lives of those she captures on film in order to portray them as truthfully as possible. Perceiving “time, trust and understanding” to be the key elements to achieving this, many of her projects develop over several years, helping her achieve a genuine connection between herself and her sitter and allowing her to capture the intimacy, shared ideas and shared experiences of this relationship.
‘Laura’s remarkable ability to build trust and respect with her subjects allows her to express a gritty vulnerability that is as sincere as it is elusive to capture.’
Terry O’ Neill – photographer
London based but I always have my toothbrush packed and ready to travel at any time
Please find my most updated location here
AWARDS
(condensed, full list available upon request)
1st Place Portraits Singles - World Press Photo Awards
Winner Magenta Foundation X4
AOP awards
Royal Photographic Society Vic Odden Award
John Kobal Award – The Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize
Lens Culture Fine art awards winner 2009,2015,2021
Director’s Choice -Center Awards Sante Fe
Getty Prestige Grant
Prix HSBC Pour la Photographie Prize
Hariban Finalist 2017,2018
Firecracker award
1st Prize Juliet Margaret Cameron Women in Photography Award
1st prize Passpartout
1st prize Sony World Photo portfolio category
MONOLOGUES
Against the Dying of The Light (English) Paperback Actes du Suds 2017
YOUTH (Vol. 1) Limited edition boxset of 27 lithographic postcards
EXHIBITIONS
GROUP
International Art of Photography Show, San Diego
Taylor Wessing National Portrait Prize, The National Portrait Gallery 2011,2015
The World Press Photo Contest, The Royal Festival Hall / World Tour
The Magenta Foundation Toronto, Canada
New York Photo Festival Awards
Marion Center for Photographic Arts at the Santa Fe
The Independent Photographers Gallery
Women in Art Photography Taschen London Humble Arts
Save The Children Other Lives Touring Exhibition, Houses of Parliament, Somerset House
Sony World Photography Awards Somerset House
Passage Forum Meyrin - Geneva
FishBar London- ‘The Walks’
The Saatchi Gallery London - From Selfie to Self-Expression
FESTIVALS
PhotoLondon 2017
Arles Recontres 2020 night of the year
PAD Paris
Photoville 2016 NYC
QUAD Gallery Hijacked, Derby, Sydney, Australia
Hereford Photography Festival
SOLO
The National Portrait Gallery (Permanent collection)
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff Paris 2017
Galleifet art center aix en provence 2017
Arret sur l'image galerie BORDEAUX -Nov 2017
Beaux de Arts Nov 2017
Laura Pannack ‘A Collection’ Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff
Young British Naturists, One and a Half Gallery, London
The Geffrye Museum
The White Cloth Gallery Leeds
Mother/Dam Love
‘Youth Without Age, Life Without Death: Chapter 1’ Francesca Maffeo Gallery, UK
Magazzini Fotografici
Les promenades photographiques - Brittany
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L-P