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350 Miles / Shoreline Edgelands: Wanderings #34/52a

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350 miles – An Essex Journey…

Now this was something of a find.

It is a text and photographic exploration of the Essex shoreline by Jason Orton and Ken Worpole…

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The photographs seem to be an almost unintended capturing or exploration of some semi-hidden other side of the land, of the forgotten or overlooked history, lives and tales of coastline edgelands.

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There is a quiet grace and beauty to them, a gentle melancholia that I can’t quite always put my finger on…

“The authors have uncovered in words and images a haunted littoral of piers and power plants, mudflats and louring skies… Essex has never looked so mystical.” (Found here).

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Lovely stuff.

 

(File under: Trails and Influences / Year 3 Wanderings)

Intertwined wanderings around these parts:
Day #160/365: Edgelands Report Documents; Cases #1a (return), #2a-5a.

Elsewhere in the ether:
Peruse the book here and at Ken Worpole’s home in the ether here.

 

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