Laura Pannack


Laura Pannack is a British social documentary and portrait photographer, based in London. Her work is often of children and teenagers. Pannack received first place in the World Press Photo Awards in 2010, the Vic Odden Award from the Royal Photographic Society in 2012, and won the Portfolio category in the Sony World Photography Awards in 2021.
A book, Youth Without Age and Life Without Death, was published in 2023.

Early life and education

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.

Career

Pannack works commercially and on self initiated personal projects, her subjects often being "young people and teenagers". Her work has been a feature in magazines.'
Her personal projects include The Untitled, Young Love and Young British Naturists, For her personal work Pannack largely uses a film camera, at one time a Bronica 645 medium format camera and more recently a Hasselblad 6×6.
In 2011 Pannack was included in Creative Reviews Ones to Watch list and in 2013 in The Magenta Foundation's Emerging Photographers'' list.

Publications

Publications by Pannack