Adam Pedley
White River
For all twenty-three years of my life I have lived alongside the River Vinnick that runs from the industrial area, north of St Austell to the picturesque village of Pentewan, the river is also known locally as the 'white river'. This is due to the waste-water from the China Clay quarrying that was then emptied into the River, turning it white in colour. St Austell benefited from the clay industry from the late nineteenth century to the 1980's. It made the town a very prosperous part of Cornwall and attracted many professionals, services, retail outlets and tourists, more importantly it also created thousands of job opportunities to the local people, but since the rapid decline in the last twenty years, it seems to be a place stuck in the past. The local economy has suffered and it has become a society that in some ways seems broken and defeated. The river now runs clear; it no longer has the essence that it once represented.
Sarah Anderson • Reuben Boudewijn • Shelley Daber • Tom Gilbert • Adam Pedley • Amy Piner • Richard Sibley •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Central Saint Martins
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De Montfort University
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London College of Communication
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University of Sunderland
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Sir John Cass School of Art, Media and Design, London Metropolitan University
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