Chloe Dewe News Today

A page from the Chloe Dewe Mathewss Thames Log © Chloe Dewe Mathews Over the past year, the River Thames has been a source of solace for many Londoners. This ever-changing waterway snakes through the centre of the city, dividing it into north and south while dramatically shapeshifting with a tidal ebb and flow that pays no heed to human dramas. Now, 12 months since London’s first lockdown, the Thames is the inspiration for a number of new projects that celebrate the power...

Shot between 2011–16, Chloe Dewe Mathews’ Thames Log traces the world-famous river from its easily missed, disputed source in a field in Gloucester to its more expansive end in the North Sea. The photographer focuses on rituals, from baptism to pagan ceremonies, and from reading the Sunday paper to teenage rites of passage, and in doing so, she suggests something paradoxical. Just as rituals are repetitive but never quite the same, the Thames is both centuries old and ever-changing. ‘Her...