Shanghai

Liz Hingley par Clémentine Larroumet

Liz Hingley was the first winner of the Prix Virginia, a photography award that we have supported since the beginning. At the time, she was a young photographer. She won with her moving and intimate photo essay on an under-privileged family in the UK, The Jones Family.

Liz defines herself as an anthropologist. What she always finds the most interesting in her photographic work is the communities she shoots, their rituals and lifestyles. She lived in Shanghai for two years and quickly became interested in the social and economic development that came with the extension of the underground train system in the Chinese megacity.

The pictures in her Portraits de Villes are the fruit of a lot of research and exploration. They show the Shanghai suburbs in a fresh light.

INSTAGRAM @lizhingley1 YEAR OF BIRTH 1985 PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham, United Kingdom EDUCATION BA Honors in Photography, Brighton University, Scholarship FABRICA research and communication department in Italy & MSc with Distinction in Social Anthropology, University College London. PROFESSION Photographer, anthropologist and curator of all sorts FAVORITE MEDIUM A playfully mix PASSION People and the piano ROLE MODEL My aunt FAB, a pioneering literary agent who has brought so many beautiful and significant books into the world FAVORITE ARTIST Impossible question FUN FACT I am the daughter of three priests

Portraits de Villes is a collection of books, where an artist is given carte blanche to illustrate a city of his / her choice. Each book is a unique journey, guided by the singular gaze of an artist.