[ { "src": "photos/10-hastings-clifftop-panorama.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/10-hastings-clifftop-panorama.jpg", "title": "From the Cliff", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "18 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The funicular railway runs up to the East Hill. From the top, the town spreads out below — the pier stretching west, the old town tucked into the cleft in the cliffs, the beach between them.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/01-hastings-rooftops-pattern-bw.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/01-hastings-rooftops-pattern-bw.jpg", "title": "Rooftop Pattern", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "5 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "From above, the Old Town becomes pure geometry. Chimneys, slates, and right angles going back three centuries. In black and white it looks like something you'd find in a print shop in 1960.", "width": 1400, "height": 822, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 528 }, { "src": "photos/03-hastings-colourful-rooftops-orange-house.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/03-hastings-colourful-rooftops-orange-house.jpg", "title": "Orange House", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "14 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "Every roof is a different colour — grey slate, red tile, painted render, mossy stone. Then the orange house. The whole frame reorganises itself around it.", "width": 787, "height": 1400, "thumbWidth": 505, "thumbHeight": 900 }, { "src": "photos/07-hastings-rooftop-vista.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/07-hastings-rooftop-vista.jpg", "title": "Old Town Vista", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "18 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The East Hill rises behind the old town. From up here you can see the whole thing laid out — the cliffs, the beach, the net huts, the houses stacked on top of each other going back from the shore.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/04-hastings-tackleway-blue-walls.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/04-hastings-tackleway-blue-walls.jpg", "title": "The Tackleway", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "5 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The Tackleway is one of Hastings' oldest lanes. The blue paint on both sides holds everything in — you move through it like a corridor with a view at the end. Two people walked through at the same depth, neither aware of the other.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/06-hastings-blue-wall-framing.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/06-hastings-blue-wall-framing.jpg", "title": "Blue Walls", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "14 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "Someone painted both walls the same blue and created a frame without meaning to. The warm stone rooftops sit inside it like a painting inside a painting.", "width": 1400, "height": 767, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 493 }, { "src": "photos/02-hastings-alley-shadow-stripes.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/02-hastings-alley-shadow-stripes.jpg", "title": "Shadow Stripes", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "8 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The iron railings on the upper walkway cast lines across the wall in the late afternoon. You wait for someone to walk through them. The orange jacket made the whole thing sing.", "width": 1400, "height": 787, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 505 }, { "src": "photos/01-hastings-stade-alley-bw.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/01-hastings-stade-alley-bw.jpg", "title": "The Stade Alley", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "5 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The gap between the net huts is about two feet wide. At midday the light drops straight through it — a column of white against the black timber. The silhouette walked into it and kept going. I had one frame.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/06-hastings-backlit-cobblestone-walker.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/06-hastings-backlit-cobblestone-walker.jpg", "title": "The Cobbles", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "14 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "These streets haven't changed in a hundred years. The backlight from the end of the alley turns every passerby into a silhouette. It's an old trick but the cobblestones make it earn its keep.", "width": 1400, "height": 875, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 562 }, { "src": "photos/11-hastings-brick-alleyway-lamppost.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/11-hastings-brick-alleyway-lamppost.jpg", "title": "Rock-a-Nore", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "18 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The lamp post at the end of the alley has been there since gas. The brick has absorbed seventy years of rain. Nothing is particularly straight but it holds together.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/08-hastings-building-facade-bw.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/08-hastings-building-facade-bw.jpg", "title": "Facade", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "18 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The render has been patched so many times it's become its own texture. Black and white takes the colour argument away and leaves only the light.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/03-hastings-old-town-fryer-red-coat.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/03-hastings-old-town-fryer-red-coat.jpg", "title": "Old Town Fryer", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "11 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "She stopped outside the chippy for maybe five seconds. The red coat threw a hard shadow on the wall behind — the same wall the sign had been painted on for forty years. Everything lined up.", "width": 1400, "height": 1050, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 675 }, { "src": "photos/04-hastings-cafe-window-red-shopfront.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/04-hastings-cafe-window-red-shopfront.jpg", "title": "Red Shopfront", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "14 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The café faces the street at an angle. The red door was open, someone was reading inside. The whole thing framed itself — I just had to stand still long enough.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/05-hastings-seafood-shop-conversation.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/05-hastings-seafood-shop-conversation.jpg", "title": "Fresh Catch", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "14 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The conversation at the counter was a long one. Neither of them moved for a while. The whole shop smelled of the sea — brine and ice and something freshly landed.", "width": 1400, "height": 1120, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 720 }, { "src": "photos/07-hastings-antiques-shop-window.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/07-hastings-antiques-shop-window.jpg", "title": "Antiques", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "14 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The window display hadn't been changed in months. Maybe years. The light on the glass made a second image of the street behind — two eras of Hastings visible at the same time.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/09-hastings-steamed-window-flowers.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/09-hastings-steamed-window-flowers.jpg", "title": "Steamed Window", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "18 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The warmth from inside meets the cold air and the glass fogs. Someone had put flowers on the sill. Through the steam they became something softer.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/08-hastings-please-call-again.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/08-hastings-please-call-again.jpg", "title": "Please Call Again", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "18 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "Seen through the gap in the railings. The sign's been there since before the railings were put up. This is the kind of place that keeps its manners.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/10-hastings-sonny-elliott-sign.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/10-hastings-sonny-elliott-sign.jpg", "title": "Sonny Elliott", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "18 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "Painted directly onto the gable end. 'Rock-a-Nore Road' — the fishermen's quarter. Sonny Elliott ran his business here for decades. The sign outlasted most of what it advertised.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/02-hastings-net-huts-roofline.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/02-hastings-net-huts-roofline.jpg", "title": "Net Huts", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "11 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The net huts are the tallest wooden buildings in England — built narrow to fit the beach. The orange tile sits on top of the black timber like something the weather put there by mistake.", "width": 1400, "height": 787, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 505 }, { "src": "photos/05-hastings-net-huts-low-angle.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/05-hastings-net-huts-low-angle.jpg", "title": "Low Angle", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "14 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "From below, the weathered timber goes on and on. A seagull had taken a position on the chimney and wasn't moving. The shadow work on the boards is the whole picture.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/06-hastings-stade-establishing-shot.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/06-hastings-stade-establishing-shot.jpg", "title": "The Stade", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "8 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The Stade is the largest beach-launched fishing fleet in England. The net huts behind, the boats in front, the cliff face at the back — this is what Hastings looks like when you step back far enough to see all of it at once.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/09-hastings-boat-hull-detail.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/09-hastings-boat-hull-detail.jpg", "title": "Hull", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "18 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The grain in the wood is fifty years deep. Green net draped over the hull, catching the afternoon light. Up close, a fishing boat is mostly texture.", "width": 1400, "height": 875, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 562 }, { "src": "photos/04-hastings-fishing-boat-rx56-bw.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/04-hastings-fishing-boat-rx56-bw.jpg", "title": "RX56", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "5 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "RX56 — Rye and Hastings registration, number 56. The boat has probably worked these waters for forty years. Pulled up on the shingle, it sits the way a thing sits when it belongs somewhere. Black and white made it timeless.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/01-hastings-lone-fisherman-beach.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/01-hastings-lone-fisherman-beach.jpg", "title": "The Fisherman", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "3 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "He'd been there since before I arrived. The orange beanie against the blue of the sea — that contrast did all the work. The shingle stretches away from him in every direction and he doesn't move.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/03-hastings-lifeguard-hut-beach.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/03-hastings-lifeguard-hut-beach.jpg", "title": "Off Season", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "14 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The lifeguard post is locked up between October and Easter. The whole beach has a different quality then — quieter, more honest. The hut stands there and waits.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/07-hastings-figure-beach-pier.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/07-hastings-figure-beach-pier.jpg", "title": "Pier Light", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "14 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The pier reaches into the sea behind her. The haze softens it into something almost abstract. She's walking in the opposite direction, not looking at it — the pier is just always there.", "width": 1400, "height": 933, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 599 }, { "src": "photos/05-hastings-harbour-wall-seagull-silhouette.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/05-hastings-harbour-wall-seagull-silhouette.jpg", "title": "The Breakwater", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "8 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "The sun was directly behind the harbour wall. The seagull landed on the rail and stayed there just long enough. Everything else in the frame is pure silhouette.", "width": 1400, "height": 902, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 579 }, { "src": "photos/08-hastings-harbour-wall-silhouettes.jpg", "thumb": "photos/thumbs/08-hastings-harbour-wall-silhouettes.jpg", "title": "Harbour Wall", "location": "Hastings, East Sussex", "edition": "14 of 25 remaining", "editionShort": "1 / 25", "story": "Three of them on the harbour wall with a dog. The sky was doing something behind them — the kind of light that only lasts a few minutes. They were watching the sea and didn't notice.", "width": 1400, "height": 700, "thumbWidth": 900, "thumbHeight": 450 } ]