Commissioned by Hull Maritime Museum, ‘At Sea’ focuses on the harrowing journeys of three unaccompanied child migrants, who Neville Gabie got to know as they were awaiting “processing.” The meeting occurred whilst Gabie was documenting fulmars, seabirds which make vast journeys across oceans. Their endeavour, tenacity and vulnerability echoes the trauma of young migrants: hounded by police, used by traffickers, confronted by borders without family and literally “at sea.” In the early 1900s, Hull was a gateway for over two million mainly Jewish refugees, including Gabie’s own family. As such, the insecurity of these particular boys – living in a state of limbo – became personal.