Shore Dwellers

Industrialists, farmers, scientists, policy-makers, NGOs and other groups are engaged in a global dialogue about water: how we use it, how we manage it, how we consume it and commodify it. Here in Manitoba, the conversations surrounding Lake Winnipeg and its environs are almost always couched in these terms. But will our natural water systems be able to thrive if we only understand them in these instrumental and technocratic ways? In these photos, we are placed into the water itself, either in the shallows or beneath the surface, depicting ordinary moments—reading, sleeping, or simply gazing upwards from an unfamiliar and alien world.