THE
BOATBUILDER

In my work, I’m drawn to people who have chosen to step outside the expected and build a life on their own terms. People who quietly defy what we’re told we should want or become.
Andrew Guest is one of them.
On a cold autumn day, I met him at his boatyard to photograph him alongside Rosalind, a wooden Cornish lugger first built in 1903. With steady hands and a reverence for history, Andrew has spent years restoring her, largely on his own, taking her apart piece by piece and rebuilding her from fragments, photographs, years of accumulated skills, and intuition.
Rosalind is one of the last of her kind, a living reminder of a maritime past that is at risk of being lost.
In 2025, after years of devotion, she touched water again for the first time in decades.