The Journey Home From School
Photographer
Laura Pannack, United Kingdom
Company
Laura Pannack
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This project explores the tumultuous public life of young people in the gang governed Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa. Making our way home from school is a simple, nostalgic, universal activity Together we walk to and home from school avoiding the daily threat of gang crossfire. Dialogue forms as cameras change hands between myself and the youth— a partnership to produce material which offers a rare insight into their confusing and challenging world of adolescence.
Bio
Laura Pannack is a London-based photographer working between documentary and portraiture, focusing on youth and identity through long-term, collaborative practice. Her project The Journey Home follows young people in Cape Town navigating gang violence. Her work has been published and exhibited world wide and won numerous awards over the past 18 years including 1st prize World Press Photo portraits and recently the Tom Stoddart Award.
Awards
1st Place Portraits Singles - World Press Photo Awards
Winner Magenta Foundation X4
Terry O’Neill Award
New York Photo Festival Awards
Art of Photography Show San Diego
1st place/ Best In Show Fine Art Nudes - Lucies Awards
AOP awards
1st place portfolio Sony World Photography Award
Royal Photographic Society Vic Odden Award
John Kobal Award – The Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize
Judge World Press Photo Awards
Winner Lens Culture awards
Director’s Choice Center Awards
Getty Prestige Grant
PH Museum women in photo award
Prix HSBC Pour la Photographie Prize
Camera Clara Prize
Tom Stoddard Award
LSI Leica award winner 2025
