6.75 × 9 inches, 96 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-77-4

Design by IN-FO.CO

Available for Pre-order
Shipping July 2025

Free USA Shipping

The forthcoming book The Work and the Water, by Matthew López-Jensen, is a work of environmental social practice centering the unseen labor required to keep the Erie Canal, a 524-mile inland waterway in upstate New York, operational. Over 40 photographs are accompanied by commentary from the 400+ employees who work on the canal year-round, often out of view, and in hazardous conditions. As the first artist-in-residence with the canal in its 200-year history, López-Jensen visited every lock in the system from Buffalo to Albany, from Whitehall to Seneca Falls. The archive of images he created helps communicate the potentials of the canal as a site for environmental restoration while also conveying the scale of this colossal piece of infrastructure that transformed the region in ways that are still felt today.