<b><i>The Waters of Our Time</i></b> was conceived as an homage to Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes' book <i>The Sweet Flypaper of Life</i> published in 1955. It contains 142 of Thomas Roma's photographs spanning most of his career, beginning on the cover with a picture taken from his first roll of film shot in 1972, and a fictional text by Giancarlo T. Roma, written as a first-person narrative recollection in the voice of an older woman. The written story begins on the book's cover and is interwoven with the photographs, interacting with and ultimately lending a reflective quality to the interplay between them. The title comes from the song "Follow" (written by Jerry Merrick and famously sung by Richie Havens, also a Brooklyn native) whose lyrics are reproduced throughout the book. A retrospective of sorts, <i><b>The Waters of Our Time</b></i>, is a book that could only be done in the latter part of this renowned photographer's career and with the unique contemplation of his watchful son.