Shaun OatenBower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK
For my set of bookmarks I was inspired by the niggling feeling of homesickness I’ve felt since leaving friends and family beside the sea in Brighton at the end of 2008 to start a new life 160 miles away in Bristol, a city with a fine harbourside but no beach.
Consequently, as well as missing those I left behind, I have a constant longing to be near the sea, having lived on the coast my whole life. Unsurprisingly, the sea is something that occurs repeatedly in my photography too, so on discovering a quote by American author Zora Neale Hurston, I decided to use her words with photographs I have taken in various coastal locations.
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