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Michelle Sank

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@sank_michelle
Social documentary photographer Sony World Photography Awards - Portrait Winner, Open Competition Represented by Elliott Gallery, Amsterdam.
  • Lifestyle
  • Following 3.5K
  • Followers 5.4K
  • Engagement 1.31%
  • Avg comments 6

About Michelle Sank

Michelle Sank (@sank_michelle) is a Photographer creator on Instagram, also filed under Lifestyle. The account has 5,419 followers and 610 published posts. Recent posts average 52 likes and 6 comments, an engagement rate of 1.31%.

Michelle Sank belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Michelle Sank follows 3,511 accounts, so the audience is roughly 1.5 times the size of the list followed. Michelle Sank uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Michelle Sank under Photographer, with Lifestyle as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for Michelle Sank runs to 17 words across 3 lines. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Michelle Sank dates from May 2026.

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610 Posts

All 10 recent posts Flinque holds for Michelle Sank are single images. Michelle Sank has built a substantial archive of 610 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 8.9 followers for each post published. Michelle Sank also keeps 4 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 59 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include portrait, contemporaryphotography, photography, drag and kuala. The captions tag #portrait, #contemporaryphotography, #photography, #documentary and #streetphotography.

TRX shopping mall, Kuala Lumpur. May 2026 #portrait #sociological #socialdocumentaryphotography #securityguard #contemporaryportraitphotographer
Last day in Kuala Lumpur. Thank you to and for this wonderful opportunity. It has been such a visual delight to be here full of moments of wonder and appreciation. Here a young girl in the historic Mallaca - a sense of a stage within a stage. #streetphotography #documentary #youth #portrait #photographyportrait
Completion of judging of. Thank you to and to all the other judges for such a great time and inspiring discussions x #photocompetition #photography #streetportraits #contemporaryphotography #narrative
A display from my visit to the history museum in Maleka, outside of Kuala Lumpur.
It is somewhat haunting to see the colonisation of the Malay world over the past centuries with this seeming to reflect in the surrealistic feel of some of the displays.
#documentary #documentaryphotography #photodocumentary #colonisation #narrativephotography
Evening time, city centre, Kuala Lumpar. Constant moments of wonderment and surprise #streetphotography #photography #kaulalumpur #nightphotography #contemporaryphotography
‘Aleesa and Zar’ at the Botanical Gardens, Kaula Lumpur having arrived to judge. Thank you to for this wonderful opportunity.
Having just returned from South Africa I am poignantly aware of the Cape Malay South African cultural community who are descended from enslaved and political exile populations brought by the Dutch from Indonesia and Southeast Asia during the 17th and 18th centuries. They are now famously resident in Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap neighborhood.
#park #portraitphotography #portrait #streetphotos #youth
‘Davina’ who inspired the name of this project. When I was working with Maxine this beautiful young man appeared and Maxine said “this is my drag daughter - I am mentoring him to be a drag queen”
The sumptuousness of the interior of seems such a fitting setting for this celebratory portrait. photography #dragqueens #portraiture #contemporaryphotography
#photography
#portrait
So special for me to see the exhibition of my series ‘Drag Daughters’ at in the place where it feels it belongs. Laylah very kindly lent me her dress and how great to have it in situ with the actual image.

#contemporaryphotography #photography
#portrait #drag #davidhill_photo
So looking forward to the talk and opening of my exhibition "Drag Daughters" at in Amsterdam tomorrow 7th May.
Thank you to for facilitating the coverage of this body of work.

Laylah and I have developed a very special friendship over the years and has kindly lent me this dress which will be displayed on a manequinn in the exhibition.

Laylah's story is one of resilience - having initially been rejected by his family when he came out and being forced to live on a train for a while.
He has now been accepted within the family.

These images were undertaken as a means to render empowerment and a sense of celebration.

#contemporaryphotography #photography
#portrait #drag #britishjournalofphotography
"What began as a chance encounter with a stranger on Cape Town’s Promenade, Drag Daughters developed into a powerful body of work portraying some of the city’s most exquisite drag queens"
I met Jermaine alias Miz Cambell in 2023 the morning I landed in Cape Town and ventured onto the Promenade of my childhood.
Little did I know at the time that this would launch the project "Drag Daughters" which opens as a solo exhibition at in Amsterdam on 7th May.

Also that it would mark the start of my returning to South Africa to continue my photographic practice in the place that it all began for me as a student at The Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town in the late 70's.

Thank you Jermaine for being the inspiration for this.

#portrait #documentary #documentaryphotography #photodocumentary #contemporaryphotography

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Michelle Sank's engagement

Michelle Sank's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.31%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 76 followers. Comments stay close to likes on Michelle Sank's posts, at 52 likes and 6 comments on average, about 8.7 likes per comment.

Engagement rate

1.31%

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52
Avg comments
6
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Who is Michelle Sank?

Michelle Sank (@sank_michelle) is a Photographer creator on Instagram, also filed under Lifestyle. Michelle Sank uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Michelle Sank runs to 17 words across 3 lines.

How many followers does Michelle Sank have?

Michelle Sank has 5,419 followers on Instagram (5.4K). Michelle Sank follows 3,511 accounts, so the audience is roughly 1.5 times the size of the list followed. Michelle Sank has built a substantial archive of 610 posts.

What is Michelle Sank's engagement rate?

Michelle Sank's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.31%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 76 followers. Comments stay close to likes on Michelle Sank's posts, at 52 likes and 6 comments on average, about 8.7 likes per comment.

What does Michelle Sank post about on Instagram?

Flinque files Michelle Sank under Photographer, with Lifestyle as a secondary category. All 10 recent posts Flinque holds for Michelle Sank are single images. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Michelle Sank repeatedly use the words portrait, contemporaryphotography, photography, drag and kuala. Michelle Sank's captions carry hashtags such as #portrait, #contemporaryphotography and #photography. Michelle Sank writes those captions mainly in English. Michelle Sank keeps 4 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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