Sheppey

By Paul Clarke Photography

October 3^rd, 2016

As a child, I had this thing about the “other islands”. The bits of the UK that weren’t quite Great Britain, but weren’t quite not. Sheppey, Thanet, Grain, Hayling… Something about their remoteness appealed. Something about being hidden in plain sight - near enough to reach within an hour or two, but possibly never to be visited in a lifetime.

Then yesterday a random tweet from a friend led me to the Isle of Sheppey. I had a shoot nearby this morning, so this afternoon - busy diary be damned - I took a couple of hours off and crossed the bridge. And it really is a bridge, a proper hunch-backed one. Who knew?