Floodplain traces the photographic history of Melbourne's iconic river — the Birrarung (Yarra River) — its floods, infrastructure and geographical significance, and expands on the cultural and environmental implications of our acts of intervention. Published to coincide with James Geurts' exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, the book includes archival photographs of the Birrarung sourced from State Library Victoria, Museums Victoria and Melbourne Water collections; photographs of Yarra River sites and neon sculptural works at historic points of intervention; and site-specific works on paper at points of river intervention, processed through a reconfigured scanner. The book forms a wider treatise about the mythology of the flood and the fallacies of environmental colonialism.