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Thames Valley - Chertsey
A photograph of a yard worker at Dennett Boat Builders, Laleham, taken on the morning of 23 April 2026, that I cannot caption properly because I did not catch his name. A vignette on what the documentary act owes the person on the other side of the camera.
East Anglia - Long Melford
The Rector of Holy Trinity, Rev’d Matthew Lawson, came out of the church on the morning of a wedding to welcome us. A one-line joke, an English parish welcome, and a frame of the archive being made.
East Anglia - Norfolk Broads
One day, two millwrights. Paul Kemp at Toft Monks Mill and Richard Seago at South Walsham. The archive has its first subjects and, unexpectedly, its sixth category.
London - Project HQ
The outreach wave has settled into something concrete. Five shoots confirmed. Advisory circle forming. Institutional partnerships locked. The book proposal is ready.
London - Project HQ
The Spring Equinox was the first date-locked event of the year. The week that followed was less quiet. Homer Sykes, Graham Lubbock, the CLA, POST Hove, the Countryside Alliance - the outreach picture has moved considerably.
London - Project HQ
Field work doesn't begin until May. Bhavani is recovering from surgery, and the project is patient enough to wait for her. Outreach across all eight regions simultaneously. Seventy-four contacts drafted and ready to send.
Cotswolds, Gloucestershire
The first Makers shoot of Year One. James Carpenter manages coppice woodland in the Cotswolds - one of fewer than a handful of working coppice workers left in the region.