The beaches around Brighton are some of the busiest in the country. Yet the local water board, Southern Water, has the worst environmental record in the UK and sewage is released regularly along the area’s coastline.

 

The sewers that feed into the sea were originally supposed to be used after once in a lifetime storms. Instead, they pollute the sea throughout the year, often in fine weather.

 

The Council considers the period from the first day of May to the last day of October as the beach’s Bathing Season. The photos in this exhibition were taken in the days immediately after a sewage release and form a record of all the days that we have been unable to swim due to Southern Water’s inaction.