Beach Epiphany

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WHY?

Water is two hydrogen atoms attached to an oxygen atom. Few molecules are smaller. Yet, we are two-thirds water and require it to live. Life as we know it could not evolve without water. 

Collage of various objects against a yellow background, including a bird, a red circle, a statue, a person in a jumpsuit, a car, a shark, a fish, and a teddy bear.

A visual commentary by collage artist Steve Timms, pairing surreal water-inspired collages with reflections on swimming, escapism and emotional renewal 

STeve’s Collages

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A sepia-toned, aged photograph of a woman, a man, and a young girl, with visible creases and wear.

In the mid-1940s, hundreds of Chinese seamen were secretly deported from Liverpool. Their families were told nothing. Hester Yang's The Undesirables is the work that refuses to let that silence stand.

The Undesirables

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Four images of a wetland: a person swimming in a river, a river landscape with a pole, a pond in a grass field, and a hand holding a small alligator.

A personal reflection on generational trauma, memory and healing, using damaged family archives and submerged film to explore water as both a force of destruction and renewal. 

Water Damage

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Person relaxing in a body of water near vibrant purple and pink trees along the shoreline.

Using rare Kodak Aerochrome film, Mil Donila captures Philippine coastlines in striking infrared tones, reimagining a medium designed to reveal what lies hidden.  

Aerochrome Coastlines

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A house cat with a light-colored coat is sitting on a carpeted surface near a doorway and looking at a closed door. The scene appears to be indoors with a part of a bed or furniture visible.

Freddie Smith explores how both films reveal the hidden violence and scale of global industry, reshaping how we perceive time, labour and the exploitation of the sea.

Logistics and Leviathan

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A wide river flowing through a dry landscape with cattle grazing on the banks and scattered trees in the background under a purple and blue sky.

Laila Ghaffar traces how The Round Lake collapses dystopian fiction into present reality, exposing the colonial and political structures driving water scarcity in Pakistan.

The Round LAke

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Map of a flood-affected area in India with labels for Shandadkot, Ratladero, Naudero, and Larkana, showing extensive flooding marked in red and rivers in black.

Exploring how climate change, political inaction and global power are bound together in producing mass displacement and environmental injustice.

The Flood is COming

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“At one end of Northfield Brook is a ward that sits among England’s 9% most deprived communities, the ward at the other end is one of the 7% most privileged wards in the country.” 

— Rawz