Frank Watson

Rollercoasting

Frank Watson’s latest book, Rollercoasting (published, June 2022) contains 40 colour photographic images and an introductory essay that explores the Kent coast as a frontier between England and Europe. The coastline fluctuates between the flatlands of Thanet and Dungeness and the undulating chalk hills and cliffs of the North Downs. The photographs allude to the way certain sites are historically respected whilst other places remain quiet and overlooked. The images attempt to portray a coastline that is shaped by both respect and contempt, where the natural and the industrial are often at odds with one another.

However the images also emphasize the pleasures of the often unwitting and eccentric quirkiness of human intervention.

Frank Watson is a Photographic artist who has previously worked as a Senior Lecturer in Photography in both theory and practice. He also broadcasts a radio show on Resonance Radio as well as being a self-publisher.

His previous books include The Hush House: Cold War Sites in England  (2004) and Soundings from the Estuary (2014).

See: www.frankwatsonphotography.com