Laura Pannack Wins Inaugural Tom Stoddart Award 2025

Laura Pannack has taken out the inaugural Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence 2025 for Crossings, a long-form documentary project on the daily school commute and its physical and psychological pressures for young people in South Africa. The award is a joint initiative between Gost Books and the Ian Parry photojournalism grant, supporting documentary work in long form. The book is out now through Gost Books.