Chloe Sastry : Regents Canal - Towpath, 2023

Edition of 10

Size: 30x20cm (12x8 inches)

Photographic Printing on Fujifilm Professional Lustre paper

Regent’s Canal - Postcards from the Edge takes us down onto the towpath, away from the usual tourist viewpoints and offers us a more honest way to express ourselves. The journey along the realities of the towpath acts as a metaphor for feeling ‘on the edge’. I am digitally juxtaposing the idealised vistas with less desirable elements - the vermin, litter, weeds, graffiti and tents tactfully ignored by the tourist publicity.

I am a London-based photographer. My career in mental health and horticulture therapy developed my lifelong interest in the universal human experience and what motivates us all. I am particularly interested in how photography allows us to express our most difficult feelings and in turn, relate more authentically to others. My current projects explore feelings around family origin, loss and memorialisation.