Water Lines looks at the ways human lives become attuned to water—its cycles, its unpredictability, and its capacity to sustain life. The series was made on Cambodia’s Tonlé Sap Lake, a landscape shaped by one of the most dynamic hydrological systems in Southeast Asia. Each year the lake expands and contracts with the seasonal flow of the Mekong River, transforming the boundaries between land and water.

For communities living on the lake, daily life unfolds within these shifting conditions. Homes, fishing practices, and systems of movement adapt to the rhythms of rising and receding water. Boats, nets, and floating structures form temporary pathways that connect people to the lake and to one another.

Life on Tonlé Sap is shaped through these continual adjustments. The lake is not a fixed environment but a living system whose movements influence patterns of labour, settlement, and survival.