Vanessa Winship is using an analogue, possibly large format camera. All images she takes are black and white. Image one uses line and high contrast. Images 2 and 3 are portraits. In each portrait, the frame allows space for each subject. There is a vanishing point in the background beyond the subjects in the foreground in image two. Image two has a shallow depth of field, and image three doesn't have a deep depth of field, but deeper than image two. The second image is divided in the background by the horizon line. In image three, the composition is split by a diagonal line.
These images appear to me to be about love. In the first image, there is a group of trees engraved numerous times over with initials and names presumably of lovers who wanted to commemorate their feelings by defacing a tree. Image two appears to be a young couple. And the third image appears to be a father and son. The relationships in the trees may have lasted or failed. The couple in the second image may have a strained relationship based on the awkardness in their pose and stares - same with the father and son. To me, the diagonal line in the third image is a division between this father and son. The son looks away, but keeps his hand on his father's shoulder, possibly implying a desire to salvage the loving relationship they had, or the opposite.
This series is interesting to me because it captures multiple aspects of love, and puts it in a different perspective from what is typically portrayed in photographs.
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