The Long Walk Back is a document of an unusual journey through England: a 500-mile walk, from my (then) residence in Brighton to the place where I was born in Durham, through all the places I had lived in-between.
It emerged from a desire to both confront my own memories and identity and explore the character of my country and its people as they are today – hoping that these two strands would overlap and that I would learn something about myself and something about my country.
So I walked (and only walked, avoiding all vehicular transport) through a huge swathe of the country: cities and villages, fields and forests, national parks and industrial wastelands. I documented my journey in photographs and words.