Flookburgh fishermen never say they are going fishing just that they are ‘Going to the Sand’. They travel to where they need to by ancient tractors, negotiating tides and constantly changing sands and channels. As a photographer, sometimes people and places just get to you. Morecambe Bay has been like that for me. Almost three years ago a chance meeting with two of Flookburgh’s handful of remaining fishermen has led to the creation of this body of work. During this time I have spent many days 6 miles out on the Sand with the fishermen in all seasons and all weathers. I learnt about craams and riddles, tide tables and bye-laws, shrimping, musselling and cockling, fishing with all kinds of nets. These skills have been passed down through generations of fishermen, all with the backdrop of the beautiful but often harsh landscape of the Bay. During this relatively short space of time regulations have changed resulting in many of my photographs documenting the end of several eras. Morecambe Bay in North West England is Britain’s second biggest bay and is the confluence of four principal estuaries, the Leven, Kent, Lune and Wyre. Collectively these form the largest area of continuous intertidal mudflats and sand in the UK covering a total area of over 120 square miles. The Bay is a treacherous place. The combination of fast tides, quick sands, draining rivers, shifting channels and sheer unpredictability have trapped the unwary for centuries. Unfortunately, it is perhaps best known for the cockling tragedy which occurred on the evening of 5 February 2004 when 23 Chinese illegal labourers were drowned by an incoming tide after picking cockles off the Lancashire coast. It has one of the highest tidal ranges in the world, fishermen follow the retreating tides, gathering cockles, mussels and shrimps. These images are from a wider series documenting inshore fishing in Morecambe Bay made in various locations in Lancashire and Cumbria between 2018 and 2021.