The Shore Between Two Rivers

The photographs here are inspired by the writing of Gaston Bachelard, who described the sea as both a manifestation and a presence of material imagination. The Flyde Coast, in the north west of England, is a 13-mile coastal plain situated between the River Wyre to the north and the River Ribble to the south. To those who gravitate here – from young hopefuls to the newly retired – the sea and its shoreline act as a poetic mirror: an ocean of real or imagined possibilities.

Notes. The photographs shown above were all made on Lancashire’s Flyde Coast from 2024 onwards. By the new year of 2026, the municipality of Blackpool was advancing a £2 billion regeneration agenda, headlined by a £131 million capital investment plan and a dual bid for UK Town of Culture 2028 and City of Culture 2029.