About Worthing by Accident

A blog of flash ethnography, based on interview and participant-observation work around Worthing, a seaside town in West Sussex, England.  Artwork provided by Worthing-based visual artists. 

Flash fiction – micro-stories or sawn-off tales.
Ethnography –  writing about culture.  What anthropologists do.

Flash-ethnography – a format.  Micro-ethnographic moments turning around a specific question or issue.

This blog is maintained by Caroline Osella, a social anthropologist who has lived in Worthing since 2014.

All images copyright of the individual artists – contact them for permission to use or reproduce.  Browse them at FB WoBy.