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Limited edition artwork on museum-quality Hahnemühle Fine Art Print Photo Rag Paper (302 gsm, 100% cotton), signed and numbered (Ed 25) on the front.

Wild swimmer on Sandown Beach walks into the sea in winter. I shot this scene from the coastal path. I like how surreal everything look from above. The sea looks like a blanket that she’s stopping with her feet. The idea that she’s entering into it, as she’s so tiny and it’s so vast...it makes me take a breath.

This photo was featured in the Style of Wight Magazine and was awarded at the ND Awards and Minimalist Photography Awards.

This photo is part of the 'IINOINTE (if it’s not okay, it’s not the end)' series.
At a time when people were being asked to isolate from one another, I saw them seek other types of connections. The coastline drew people to it. Its vastness providing safety and its ever changing face embraced everyone who engaged with it. Viewing this interaction from above accentuates how small each of us are in this world. The sheer space around the subjects reinforces the loneliness felt by many.

The ever changing coastline seems ironically to be comforting. Whatever the tone of the sea, the colour of the sand, the size of the waves, it is there - a constant - something craved by so many during this time. The interactions are intimate, quietly beautiful. At times I felt the sadness of people, other times the relief.

Everything will be ok in the end.
And if it’s not okay, it’s not the end.

The series was taken over a six-month period from January to June 2021 during the UK’s Covid-19 pandemic lock-down. The location is Sandown, on the Isle of Wight, from various cliff top vantage points.

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Hahnemuehle Fine Art Print Photo Rag Paper

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