This photo, known as The Wreck (of the Arden Craig), was taken in 1911 by Francis James Mortimer off the Isles of Scilly, west of Cornwall. Mortimer was a pioneer of pictorial photography and he focused his pictures about sea scenes, the set of great part of his production. In this photo he captured the shipwreck Arden Craig, a three-masted wheat ship that crashed into rocks due the fog. In 1911 take photos outside studios was really difficult, cameras were heavy and shoot on a boat must be very hard, this is just to understand how great is Mortimer’s work.
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