Jon Tonks. Empire

‘Empire’ is a journey across the South Atlantic exploring life on four remote islands, British Overseas Territories, intertwined through history as relics of the once formidable British Empire.

Since 2007 I voyaged to Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha, the Falkland Islands and St Helena to photograph the people, landscapes and pockets of history embedded within each place. I spent up to a month at a time in each territory, travelling 60,000 miles around the Atlantic via military outposts, low-lit airstrips and long voyages aboard cargo ships, fishing vessels and the last working Royal Mail Ship. 

The resulting work has been compiled to create an insight into places that remain part of modern British history.