Work on the water

Anyone who regularly crosses the IJ by ferry must sometimes have wondered what it must be like to be a skipper of a ferry sailing back and forth, day in day out. Well, there's more to it than you might think ...

In Work on the Water, Eveline Renaud and Paulette Mostart portray the people who work on Amsterdam's waterways, from IJmuiden to the Orange Locks: the ferry skippers, the port officials, the dredgers and the men who collect the refuse from tankers and cruise ships. Around 60,000 people work in the docks alone. In this book you can climb on board with the officers of the water police and the crew of the bunker boat, accompany the pilot of a container ship and look over the crane driver's shoulder. Work on the Water presents a surprising glimpse behind the scenes of everything that goes on in and around Amsterdam's waterways.

Eveline Renaud is a freelance photographer. She has produced photo reportages on the Zeedijk, Chinese entrepreneurs and employees of the refuse collection service in Amsterdam. 
Paulette Mostart is a copywriter and editor.