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Thames Log, by British photographer and director Chloe Dewe Mathews, examines the changing nature of our relationship with water, from ancient pagan festivities to the rituals of modern life.
Chloe Dewe Mathews spent five years photographing along the Thames, from its source in a series of pools to its vast estuary mouth. She focuses on the lives that intersect with the river but whose activities often go unnoticed, such as ship spotters, who record the continuous flow of vessels passing through Tilbury, and mudlarks, who sift through the city’s mud in search of Roman and Saxon treasures. Above the Thames, which transforms the landscape twice a day, the young river meanders gently through the green countryside. There, Dewe Mathews encounters neo-pagan rituals, eccentric coracle builders, and the keepers of the royal swans. Far from having a fixed identity, the Thames becomes the protagonist of a series of ceremonies and practices that flow uninterrupted downstream, from boat burnings in Oxford to evening prayers in Southend, from mass baptisms to rites of passage for teenagers.
Published by Loose Joints Publishing, 2021
24×29.5cm
152 pages
ISBN: 978-1-912719-19-8
Thames Log, by British photographer and director Chloe Dewe Mathews, examines the changing nature of our relationship with water, from ancient pagan festivities to the rituals of modern life.
Chloe Dewe Mathews spent five years photographing along the Thames, from its source in a series of pools to its vast estuary mouth. She focuses on the lives that intersect with the river but whose activities often go unnoticed, such as ship spotters, who record the continuous flow of vessels passing through Tilbury, and mudlarks, who sift through the city’s mud in search of Roman and Saxon treasures. Above the Thames, which transforms the landscape twice a day, the young river meanders gently through the green countryside. There, Dewe Mathews encounters neo-pagan rituals, eccentric coracle builders, and the keepers of the royal swans. Far from having a fixed identity, the Thames becomes the protagonist of a series of ceremonies and practices that flow uninterrupted downstream, from boat burnings in Oxford to evening prayers in Southend, from mass baptisms to rites of passage for teenagers.
Published by Loose Joints Publishing, 2021
24×29.5cm
152 pages
ISBN: 978-1-912719-19-8