Photojournalist Gideon Mendel has made it his mission to show how ordinary people around the world are affected by the consequences of a changing climate.
From left: Francisca Chagas Dos Santos. Taquari District. Rio Branco, Brazil. March 2015. Terence McKeen with his mother, Gloria. Blackcreek, Middleburg, Florida. United States. September 2017
As he neared 50, he wondered: “What might the world be 50 years ahead, when they were my age? Then, without really knowing what I was doing I started photographing floods.” But instead of racing to capture ongoing storms and rainfall, he waited for the water to settle and tried to capture the trauma of the aftermath.
His subjects, he said,"appreciate the sense of being witnessed, of being affirmed, of showing the world."In his series of photographs titled “Submerged Portraits,” he trains his camera on people who have been flooded out of their homes. They stand still amid the high waters and pose in front of their inundated homes. They are solemn as they stare into the camera, beckoning if not demanding that viewers acknowledge what has befallen them.
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