Fine Print: South Utsire. Thursday 3 August 1995. Northwesterly 4, increasing 5 or 6, occasionally 7. Drizzle at time. Moderate with fog patches at first. Paper size:20 x 24 in / 50 x 60 cm Depardon wrote of the series

Depardon wrote of the series “as you can see on the contact sheet

Placing particular emphasis on individual frames

a copy of the first printing of the MACK edition (signed) housed in an embossed slipcase

Nikita Khrushchev in front of the Lincoln Memorial

Fine Print: South Utsire. Thursday 3 August 1995. Northwesterly 4, increasing 5 or 6, occasionally 7. Drizzle at time. Moderate with fog patches at first. Paper size:20 x 24 in / 50 x 60 cm Depardon wrote of the seriesIntangible and mysterious, familiar yet obscure, the Shipping Forecast is broadcast four times daily on BBC Radio 4. For those at, or about to put to sea, the forecast may mean the difference between life and death. But for millions of landlubbing radio listeners it is more than this; the enigmatic language of the forecast has entered public consciousness, creating a landscape of the imagination and confirming romantic notions of Britain's island