The Shipping Forecast, originally published in 1996, is Mark Power’s illustration of the UK’s ShippingForecast, broadcast four times a day on BBC Radio 4. Beyond its useful and (at times life-saving)use to mariners it is also listened to by millions of people who tune in across the UK.
The UK shipping forecast covers the waters of Western Europe and separates them into 31 sea areas encompassing the UK,from Dover to Southeast Iceland to German Bight— of which Power photographed all of them,over a period of four years. Each image is captioned with the 0600hr forecast on the day they weretaken. This newly edited and revised second edition includes over 100 previously unpublishedimages.‘The shipping forecast, of course, exists to save lives. It warns those at sea, or about to put tosea, of approaching storms. But for the majority of us, in Britain at least, its strange, rhythmiclanguage is unashamedly romantic and oddly reassuring, despite forming an image of an islandnation perpetually buffeted by wind and waves. It manages to do all this while remaining virtuallyincomprehensible: the general synopsis at 0 1 00. Low, Southeast Iceland 995 moving slowlysouthwest, filling 1 00 7 by 0 1 00 tomorrow. Low, Biscay 958, expected Wales 1 00 5 by the sametime. Low, Trafalgar 1 00 3, moving slowly east, losing its identity.'
Mark Power (b.1959) studied painting at Brighton Polytechnic but turned to photography soonafterwards. His work has been seen in numerous galleries and museums across the world, and isheld in several collections, including the Arts Council of England, the Victoria and Albert Museum,Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Marrakech Museum of Photography and Visual Art. Powerjoined Magnum Photos as a Nominee in 2002, and became a full Member in 2007.
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