Photographed over the course of 4 years, this unfinished and ongoing body of work is an insight into a community living on and passing through a small stretch of The Grand Union Canal, otherwise known as "The Cut" between Rickmansworth and Watford.
Often humorous and occasionally gritty the images reveal a lifestyle that varies from the comfortable, cosy and relaxing to the more basic and functional showing the harsher realities that are sometimes faced by those that have made their boats their homes.
The canal, which opened through Rickmansworth in 1797, helped realise the industrial revolution as goods could be moved more quickly than was ever possible before. The locks, which solved the problem of moving up and down hillsides, were built wide so there was room for a barge or two narrow boats together, each 72 feet long and 7 feet wide.
Batchworth Lock at Rickmansworth was an important resting point on the Grand Union Canal, which was the main waterway for trade between the Midlands and London and was 137 miles long having 166 locks.
A gang of 100 men would take almost a month to cut out a mile stretch of canal with only pickaxe, shovel and wheelbarrow at their disposal.
Hence the name “The Cut”.