hoto: Francisca Chagas dos Santos, Taquari District, Rio Branco, Brazil, March 2015. From Submerged Portraits Series from Drowning World by Gideon Mendel.
Climate change gets real when people bear witness to the facts, when stories are told and consciousness is raised, then and only then, can change take place. With an understanding of this, photographer Gideon Mendel has traveled the world for evidence. From Thailand, Nigeria, and Germany to the United Kingdom, Brazil, and the United States, Mendel has spent the past decade documenting the global magnitude of climate change.
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Using photography and video, Mendel travels the world to honor people who survived catastrophic floods. His works reveals what remains when the waters turn on you. With Mendel, survivors return to the deep flood waters that now occupy what once was their home, each one with a look of shock written on their face. So much is erased not only by the spaces, the objects, and the memories—but identity itself is submerged in the trauma of destruction.
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