This catalogue has been produced to accompany the exhibition A Fish Called Julie / In Waters off Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly at Martin Parr Foundation 03 APR - 22 JUN 2025.

MPF has collaborated with photographer Jon Tonks and We Feed The UK to share stories of those trying to fish sustainably in waters off Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

We Feed The UK is a project from The Gaia Foundation using the transformative power of positive storytelling to grow support for nature-friendly food production. Ten photographers and ten poets have been commissioned to document ten stories from around the UK, featuring regenerative farmers, urban growers, sustainable fishers and grain rebels: the UK’s custodians of soil, sea and seed. Their works are being exhibited across the UK and Martin Parr Foundation is showing A Fish Called Julie. Sustainability in the South West, a new body of work by Jon Tonks.

For this new work Jon Tonks has spent over a year with those trying to fish sustainably in waters off Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, documenting stories of many stewards of the sea; those preserving the livelihoods, culture, and marine life supported by blue waters.