Sea-change

An occasional series that looks at the changing fate of the world’s oceans and how we can respond as artists, writers and feeling human beings. An exploration of  the beauty and the crises of the sea through fiction, art, photography, poetry and memoir. Now the subject of our 2024 special issue Dark Ocean.

After the Apocalypse

Nick Hunt
19th March, 2025
For the fifth post in our sister series marking the publication of Dark Ocean, this photo essay by Nick Hunt charts the rapid vanishing of Uzbekistan's Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest inland body of water in the world.
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Sea Sick

Maeve Reilly
12th March, 2025
Fourth post in this Dark Ocean series celebrating our current issue, writer 'Maeve Reilly trawls her ancestral DNA to find a key to surviving climate cataclysm in the undersea territory of Doggerland.
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Becoming Mother Ocean

Eaakey Britton
26th February, 2025
For our second post in this Dark Ocean sister series, surfer and ocean advocate Easkey Britton takes us on a deep dive into the turbulent and calm waters of motherhood in the Irish Sea.
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Ova Kingdom

Carly Nairn
19th February, 2025
Returning to our series on the Dark Ocean, writer Carly Nairn brings us an essay around the egg: its mythos, its varied forms on land and in the dark depths, and its vulnerability in the face of human extraction. With a photogram image from Issue 26 by Anne Campbell.
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On Skeleton Beach

Hannah Close
29th February, 2024
On a small Scottish island, writer and photographer Hannah Close seeks out a beach only briefly exposed at the lowest tide, where the sand is made of the bones of a hard-shelled algae both threatened by human damage and the source of regeneration. With images by the author.
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Convergences

Hannah Hindley
22nd June, 2022
In the last of our water-theme posts, we join Hannah Hindley on a dramatic journey that takes us from a crystal-covered cave in the prehistoric landmass of Wrangallia, to the Panthalassa Ocean and out into the sky .
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