The Water Rats

Frank Meadow Sutcliffe was a British photographer known for his documentary photographs of fishing communities and maritime life in Whitby, Yorkshire, between the 1880s and early 1900s. Working with large-format cameras and platinum and gelatin silver prints, he captured the daily labor and social fabric of working-class coastal life with both ethnographic precision and compositional sensitivity. His archive of thousands of glass negatives documents a vanishing way of life and remains a primary historical record of late Victorian and Edwardian working communities.

Headingley, UK