Jason, Sea Point Promenade, Cape Town 2023, 2023
Michelle Sank was born in South Africa and settled in the UK in 1987. She cites this background as informing her interest in sub-cultures and the exploration of contemporary social issues and challenges.
Her crafted portraits meld place and person creating sociological, visual and
psychological landscapes and narratives. Growing up during Apartheid in an immigrant community, Sank has empathy with the experience of a community from the peripheries.
Praised by her mentor David Goldblatt for finding the sensational in the everyday, her gaze is highly inquisitive and non-judgemental seeking to empower her subjects through their experience of the sitting process.