CanvasRebel recently connected with Will Freund and have shared our conversation below.

Will, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

My most meaningful project is also my biggest one, Connected by Water. A 1000-mile narrative documentary that explores how coastal communities feel about climate change. It started back in 2018, I was working as a Manatee Research Intern with the Mote Marine Laboratory where I would spend every week out on the Intracoastal Waterway of Sarasota, Florida looking for manatees to photograph for our research database. During that time I became interested in the national network of the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) and learned that it stretched from Brownsville, Texas to Norfolk, Virginia, over 3000 miles. I’m not sure what initially sparked the idea, but I decided that I wanted to travel to the ICW to see what it was all about.