Fishing, Leeds, Yorkshire by Spring HS Casey Orr

Casey Orr
Currently residing in Leeds, UK

website: http://www.caseyorr.com/

Work Statement
My work is about journeys, lines, grids, America and my personal narrative, unconscious flows, and how man interacts with nature for the benefit of commerce. I'm often responding to the fact that I no longer live in America. I'm constantly exploring this separation from my own culture, landscape and family. These photographs are from a series called By Water. On July 7th of last year I rode my bicycle from my home in Leeds, England, 127 miles along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, to Liverpool where I boarded The Independent Venture, a container ship. Ten days and 3500 miles later we docked in 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, tobacco, 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. The three I've sent you are of fishermen along this journey, all waiting for a bite.

Bio
I was born in 1968 and am originally from Pennsylvania. I grew up around West Chester and Wilmington, Delaware. I have a BA from Goddard College in Vermont where I studied art and made up games to get through the long winters. I've lived in England for 13 years. I'm a photographer, artist, mother, and teacher. I've been taking pictures since I was 15 but I've been watching the world around me change out of all recognition since I can remember.