Thirty years ago, Mark Power set out to photograph the thirty-one sea areas of the British shipping forecast, creating a visual interpretation of one of Britain’s most familiar radio broadcasts. Originally published in 1996, The Shipping Forecast combined black-and-white photographs with the forecast issued on the day each image was taken, linking landscape and language through atmosphere rather than documentation.

Over four years, Power travelled across the coastal regions of Western Europe searching for visual equivalents to the poetic and ritualistic tone of the broadcast. The project was inspired both by childhood memories of hearing the forecast on the radio and by a map showing the mysterious sea-area names such as Dogger, Fisher and German Bight.

This expanded new edition includes more than 100 previously unpublished photographs, revisited and re-edited by Power during lockdown in 2020 after scanning hundreds of original negatives from the journey.