Norfolk’s Fragile Coast: Sidestrand to Snettisham

Norfolk’s Fragile Coast is a photographic journey from the unstable and spectacular cliffs of Sidestrand to the fossil rich beaches of East and West Runton, to bird reserves, marshes, expanses of sand, through the sailing and vacation areas of the Burnhams to the bleakness of Snettisham on the Wash. Claire Davies has captured this diversity, zooming in on the tiniest bird and out to the wild and spectacular expanses of coastline. This photographic project – mostly carried out through the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 – not only captures a constantly changing landscape with beautiful imagery – spectacular cliffs, fossil rich beaches, marshes, seascapes, birds, flora and fauna, parkland and countryside – but along with the accompanying narrative and diary notes, establishes an important record of a coast in all its variety at a moment of exceptional and unique timing.