Sand Wharf, Hotwells 1978Shot along Bristol's harbourside between 1978 and 1983, The Harbour chronicles a period of significant change for the city which reflects the wider experience of loss and regeneration in Britain at the time. After centuries during which the harbour was a central hub of the commerce of the city and great generator of its wealth, through fair and foul means, they had largely fallen silent. The end of that working life in the late sixties to the mid

The resulting photographs

one of the oldest native Irish dog breeds

St Agnes Place was made up of two rows of Victorian terraced houses

or by the sprinklers at the sewage works

a body of work aimed at encapsulating the narratives and memories of military conflicts embedded within the landscape

Exworth’s work was never widely exhibited

The photographs in the book were taken between 1989 and 1997

of something that is no more

passed from owner to owner

His vantage point removed him from the immediacy of the street and he developed his distinctive graphic framing of the buildings and landscapes which reveal the layers of urban and social history

After abandoning this he began a series of intricate linked works in his various sheds

An award-winning author and naturalist