Vanessa Winship
Global Active City: Healthy Living for All / Liverpool, United Kingdom
The Active Well-being Initiative (AWI) is an NGO that helps cities and organisations improve the lives of their citizens through the promotion of physical activity, sport and well-being for all.
In a world facing worsening health problems, the AWI model advocates for more sustainable urban living and calls for new forms of governance. It provides a set of standards, tools and services, which are being tested in a group of pilot cities, and empowers city leaders, their communities and citizens to be the drivers of change. Cities are invited to join the movement and have their efforts certified by the Global Active City label.
The Liverpool Active City programme was launched in 2005 to boost low levels of activity and encourage partners from different sectors to work together for a different future. For over 10 years, Liverpool has pioneered a progressive physical activity strategy that uses evidence-based research to target reluctant, hard-to-reach and inactive groups. It has also pursued some innovative ideas, such as installing public gyms in fire stations and a football stadium.
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BIOGRAPHY
Vanessa Winship was born in 1960 in England. She is an award-winning British photographer (two World Press Photo prizes,1998 and 2008, Sony World Photographer of the Year 2008, and the Henri Cartier Bresson Award, 2011).
Her work can be found in a number of collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, the Public Collection of Contemporary Photography from the American South, USA, the Sir Elton John Collection, UK, the Fundación Mapfre, Spain, the Henri Cartier Bresson Foundation, France, and Tate Britain, UK.
She is the author and subject of several monographs: Schwarzes Meer (Mareverlag GmbH 2007), Sweet Nothings (Foto8/Images En Manœuvres 2008), she dances on Jackson (MACK/HCB 2013), Vanessa Winship (Fundación MAPFRE 2014), And Time Folds (MACK/Barbican 2018) Sète#19 (Le Bec en L’air / Images Singulières 2019), a box set, Seeing the Light of Day (B-Sides Box Sets-EDITIONS, 2020) and Snow (Deadbeat Club 2022), and a collaboration with Jem Poster that interweaves images of rural Ohio with the short story “Ice”.
