Laura Ally

By the Water

The physical connection to water is vital for almost all living things. Beyond sustenance, livelihood and travel, water seems to offer us a kind of meditative peace when calm, and an awe-inspiring power when turbulent. Our tenuous existence is completely dependent on this remarkable resource and it is no wonder humankind has built life around it since our beginnings. This is a series of documentary images, locations and stories vary, but all aim to show life by the water, from the limited scope of my own travels.

Photographer

Laura Ally

As a freelance documentary photographer, I have been striving to capture the ordinary and extraordinary since I was old enough to hold a camera. Not a hobby, photography has always been a compulsion, an innate way of seeing the world and humanity, and an attempt to relay a visual story. I am a critical care nurse, mother, am in an interfaith and interracial marriage, and all of these things impact my photography in some way. I am continually inspired and challenged by the immensely talented artists and photojournalists around the world.

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