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Thames Lens 2025 | Thames Lens & Port of London Authority (Overall Winner): Love Flows Like Thames Resistance by Kristjan Volt

Thames Lens 2026 Photography Competition: Capture Your Thames Vision

Submit your photos to this years competition.

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Illustrations of smoke stacks, soap, ginger beer, mataches and more for The Barking Stink Project 2019

The Barking Stink Episode 1: ‘Scented Stories: Sewage Stinks and Monster Soup’

In this episode, Thames Festival Trust’s Scented Stories explores the stinky subject of sewage. Something that during Barking’s past the local community…

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Waterman standing on a side of a barge waiting to dock at a pier

Thames Lens 2019: Winners

Our annual photography competition inviting non-professional photographers to travel onto and by the river to capture unique shots of the River Thames.

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People in the water at Sunset in Sudan

Rivers of the World on Tour 2019: Sudan

Rivers of the World is an international art and education project delivered in partnership with the British Council that connects pupils around the globe…

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School children in Ethiopia being taught outside a classroom

Rivers of the World on Tour 2019: Ethiopia

Rivers of the World is an international art and education project delivered in partnership with the British Council that connects pupils around the globe…

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Castle in Morocco on the coast

Rivers of the World on Tour 2019: Morocco

Rivers of the World is an international art and education project delivered in partnership with the British Council that connects pupils around the globe…

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Illustrations of smoke stacks, soap, ginger beer, mataches and more for The Barking Stink Project 2019

The Barking Stink Episode 5: ‘Scented Stories: Factory Fumes and Dangerous Industries’

What was it like to work in Barking’s industries during the 20th century? How did the factory fumes affect local people’s health, as well as those working…

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Illustrations of smoke stacks, soap, ginger beer, mataches and more for The Barking Stink Project 2019

The Barking Stink Episode 4: ‘Scented Stories: Food Glorious Food’

This episode of Scented Stories explores the smells of food to be found within Barking’s past. Explore what it felt like and smelt like to live and work…

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Illustrations of smoke stacks, soap, ginger beer, mataches and more for The Barking Stink Project 2019

The Barking Stink Episode 3: ‘Scented Stories: Working River’

This episode of Scented Stories offers a unique river-based perspective of Barking’s industrial past, as we hear from workers based on barges and tugs.…

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Sails with flags on them on boats in a river

River of Hope 2025: Norfolk and Norwich Flags Event

Have a look at the photos from the Norfolk & Norwich Festival.

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