Adventures in the Lea Valley

The River Lea runs from Hertfordshire down to the Thames in East London. Once a busy commercial waterway, it is now a nature reserve and leisure area. From the grand site of the 2012 Olympic Games it passes industrial estates, sports centres, new build homes and council estates. Escape from the city the reinvention of social spaces the attraction of water the meeting of different cultures the persistence of nature. Adventures in Lea Valley collects a decades worth of photographs from Davaid Campany and Polly Braden, telling the story of this changing land.