This work was commissioned as part of the international Procur.arte Flaneur New Urban Narratives project, which spanned 11 countries, and included 28 artists. In July (2015) I undertook an invited residency in Lisbon, responding to the city over a period of two weeks, to shoot a series which would then be produced and installed on location in September (2015). In responding to Lisbon as a site, I was inspired by its geographical and historical significance as a point of departure and arrival, including the legacy and memory of its colonial past. There was a the strange listlessness in the air, a sense of longing and loss. A Portuguese friend said I should listen to the Fado. Even if I didn’t understand the words, I would get the idea. Lisbon is at the edge of the world I was told, a place where the people have nowhere else left to go but out to sea, sometimes to discover great things, often never to return. I spent many days walking along the shoreline, finding life on the line where the city met the ocean.