The coastline of East Anglia in the UK is beguiling in its unique light, its landscape, and in the towns along its shores. I return time and time again to where Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk meet the sea. Essex from its broad sweep of sky and sea off Harwich to the creeks which confuse the divide between Benfleet and Canvey Island. Suffolk, from the meeting of the rivers Orwell and Stour at the head of the Shotley Peninsular, to the steep shingle shore at Aldeburgh, and luxuriant sand at Kessingland and Pakefield. The huge skies of Norfolk encase a vast stretch of coast that can be seen from across The Wash in Lincolnshire, surely out as far as Cromer.

These coasts are not dramatic, where the sea and the land are romantically entangled as in the west. There are few coves, cliffs or rocky outcrops. Here are wide stretches of marshland below sea defences with footpaths, muffled sand dunes, and long spits of land like Orford Ness or South Denes. Flint and brick towns – some still with railways, and seaside resorts with Pleasure Beaches or holiday camps and caravan parks. The light, reflected in the works of Gainsborough and Constable in the dark galleries in the Ipswich Museum. Despite Summer visitors, these coasts are quiet, and their rhythms are slower. Sometimes their beauty is only in a whisper. My work is by way of a reply.

These images are from a project photographed during the summer of 2022 around the the south and east coasts of the UK.