CRYSTAL CLEAR || WESTERN WATERS Photographs by Sant Khalsa

7.25 x 8.125 inches horizontal; 60 black and white images; 72 pages; hardcover with jacket. $50.00 plus shipping Foreword by Ed Ruscha ISBN: 978-1-7356423-6-9 SELECT PRESS: Interview and book review on Lenscratch, July 2023; Artillery magazine, March 2023;  British Journal of Photography December 2022 Before Flint, before ever-expansive wildfires annually ravaged her home state of California and much of the west coast, yet after the popular introduction of bottled water to the American consciousness in the 1990s, Sant Khalsa discovered a store called Water Shed, and photographed it. That was the first of what would become her series “Western Waters.” The sixty gelatin-silver photographs, made between 2000 and 2002, depict water stores in Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California, and southern Nevada. At that time, Khalsa said: “the photographs will serve in the future as a historical document of either a fleeting fad, or the foundation of what will become commonplace in our society.” Tw