Generations: Hastings Fishing Families
By (Author) John Cole
Unicorn Publishing Group
Unicorn Publishing Group
10th June 2025
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Photography: portraits and self-portraiture
Photojournalism and documentary photography
Social groups, communities and identities
Social and cultural history
942.259
Hardback
160
Width 230mm, Height 250mm
Generations: The Fishing Families of Hastings is a photographic portrayal from the 1990s to the present day of the men and women of Britains oldest beach-launched fishing community. Realised by the photojournalist and Hastings resident John Cole, the book portrays a unique community that may soon become extinct. Generations is in the tradition of such classic photojournalists as Sebastiao Salgado, Don McCullin and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Coles images document the passing of a way of working, of skills that have been handed down from generation to generation.
For more than thirty-five years, John Cole has worked as a photojournalist for the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Independent, as well as for leading design and advertising agencies. He has photographed Mohammed Ali, Nelson Mandela and Princess Diana, along with countless other famous and not quite so famous celebrities. His photographs have been exhibited in New York, South Africa, London and throughout the UK. However, Johns true passion is photographing ordinary people doing extraordinary things, giving voice to those who may not have a voice of their own, such as the men and women of the Hastings fishing community.