The Water of Leith

Before becoming an Edinburgh resident, I didn’t know the city had a river running through it. Through the COVID-19 lockdowns, my route for local daily exercise often followed the walkway that runs along the banks of the river. It ranges from picturesque to post-industrial, running through some of the wealthiest areas of the city, between more deprived communities and industrial sites. It creates a continuous natural corridor for wildlife, running from the edge of the Pentland Hills in the south-west to the Firth of Forth in Leith, north of the city centre. These photographs were made on walks by the Water of Leith between 2020 and 2023. Time moves on, the world changes again and again, life turns this way and that, and still, the river flows.