Seaside sentries: Britain's coastal navigation markers – in pictures

Photographer Paul Thompson walked for miles along the British coastline over a period of three years in search of navigation markers to shoot. “I noticed that they all seemed to have their own personality,” he says. The resulting series, Navigate, which captures these little-noticed guidance aids for seafarers at sunset, looks at “Britain from the edges out” at this time of huge political turmoil. For Thompson, brought up on England’s north-east coast but now London