In the summer of 2006, I went back to America, to Delaware, where I'm from.
But instead of what I ususally do, a day of travelling by car and plane over the Pennines
and then the North Atlantic Ocean, I rode my bicycle doen the old path by my house leading to
Armley Mills and then the 127 miles along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal to Liverpool, where I
boarded a container ship. Nine days and 3000 miles later I arrived in the small port town of Chester,
Pennsylvania, my birthplace.
By Water is a series of photographs about that journey, about how water connects us, how it
linked us historically through wool, cotton, tobaco and slavery, and how it links us now through the
often invisible movements of goods. The photographs are also about time: killing time and wasting time.
