Jetty, Niger Delta. A man arrives at the end of the day to sell ice cream to children who have finished helping unload diesel fuel from the creeks. © Samuel James

Work from James’s series “The Water of My Land,” which ran in the September 2012 issue of Harper’s Magazine, will be showing at the Half King in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, from February 12 to April 7. Please join James and Harper’s art director Stacey D. Clarkson at the Half King on Tuesday, February 12, at 7:30 for a discussion of the stories and images from the series.