Ten years on one photograph

Ines Costa has photographed the same stretch of the Avon once a month since 2015. She has about one photograph she is happy with.

People ask whether it gets boring. It got boring in year two. Year two is where everyone stops, and everything I care about is after it.
Ines Costa

In this episode

1. 05:20 The first year, and why it was the worst work.
2. 18:00 What changed in year four.
3. 29:40 On weather as a subject rather than a condition.
4. 45:10 The one photograph, described.
5. 56:00 Forty more years.

Mentioned

• The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
• Uta Barth, and looking at looking
• The Avon tide tables, consulted monthly for a decade

Recorded on the towpath at Sea Mills, in wind.