Blind Sites and Colour Blind Sites were two early urban landscape photography projects I conducted in 2012-13, prior to beginning my MA in Cinema and Photography at the University of Leeds. The images attempt to chart the hidden spaces around the rivers, canals and other waterways in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Having grown up originally in Bedford, where the river is celebrated as a picturesque attraction, I found it very strange moving to a (post)industrial town as a teenager, where the buildings and roads almost seem to turn their back on the river, in shame. These waterways are rendered a kind of forgotten non-place of bricked-up factories, empty towpaths and pervasive weeds.