THAMES LOG - Chloe Dewe Mathews
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 has spent five years photographing along the Thames, from its source of puddles to its great estuarine mouth. She focuses her attention on the lives that overlap with the river but whose activities often go unnoticed, such as shipwatchers, who record the steady stream of boats passing through Tilbury, and mudlarks, who scour the town's mud for Roman and Saxon treasures. Above the Thames, which transforms the landscape twice a day, the young river meanders gently through verdant countryside. Here, Dewe Mathews encounters neopagan rituals, eccentric coracle builders and the guardians of 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-burning in Oxford to evening prayer in Southend, from mass baptisms to teenage rites of passage.
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 has spent five years photographing along the Thames, from its source of puddles to its great estuarine mouth. She focuses her attention on the lives that overlap with the river but whose activities often go unnoticed, such as shipwatchers, who record the steady stream of boats passing through Tilbury, and mudlarks, who scour the town's mud for Roman and Saxon treasures. Above the Thames, which transforms the landscape twice a day, the young river meanders gently through verdant countryside. Here, Dewe Mathews encounters neopagan rituals, eccentric coracle builders and the guardians of 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-burning in Oxford to evening prayer in Southend, from mass baptisms to teenage rites of passage.
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 has spent five years photographing along the Thames, from its source of puddles to its great estuarine mouth. She focuses her attention on the lives that overlap with the river but whose activities often go unnoticed, such as shipwatchers, who record the steady stream of boats passing through Tilbury, and mudlarks, who scour the town's mud for Roman and Saxon treasures. Above the Thames, which transforms the landscape twice a day, the young river meanders gently through verdant countryside. Here, Dewe Mathews encounters neopagan rituals, eccentric coracle builders and the guardians of 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-burning in Oxford to evening prayer in Southend, from mass baptisms to teenage rites of passage.
Published by Loose Joints Publishing, 2021
24×29.5cm
152 pages
ISBN: 978-1-912719-19-8