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Tragedy on the Thames, 2022

Throughout the centuries the River Thames has claimed the lives of crews of small boats and larger vessels, the scale of the tragedies growing with the size of the vessels involved. The danger to shipping was often accepted as a necessary risk in order to keep trade flowing into London via the docks. Many of the tragedies occurred before news was so widely transmitted, and are largely forgotten today. My image ‘Tragedy on the Thames’ is a long-overdue reflection on those who, painfully, over the centuries, lost their lives and whose memories sadly, have diminished with the passage of time.