Image Credit: Louise Desnos and Laura Pannack

Join the winners of the Belfast Photo Festival’s Spotlight Award 2026 as they talk about their photographic career to date, and their winning body of work.

Artist Bio:

Laura Pannack is a London-based photographic artist. Her practice investigates the space between fact and feeling, rooted in analogue photography, primarily medium and large format, and expanded through collage, mixed media and experimental techniques. Grounded in the tradition of social documentary portraiture, her work stretches the boundaries of narrative and authorship, creating images that are as much about internal landscapes as external realities.

A strong interest in psychology and science runs through her process, shaping how she observes, connects and collaborates. She is drawn to transitional states, adolescence, emotional thresholds and unseen tensions. Often working over long periods, she allows ideas and relationships to unfold organically, creating images that hold intimacy, ambiguity and space for reflection.

Louise Desnos is a French photographer based in Paris. Since completing her studies in 2017, she has moved between personal projects and commissions, and has been represented by Agence VU’ since 2022.

While her approach can be described as naturalistic, she also creates situations and visual playgrounds that serve as fertile ground for image-making. Her work focuses on details, bodies, identities and territories in an ongoing search for signs. In 2024, she published her first book, ‘Acedia’, with Witty Books. Her work has been exhibited in France and internatio

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