Laura De Rosa His photos clearly convey the idea of the terrible consequences of climate change. Calling us to face the problem without looking away
@João Pereira de Araújo, Taquari District, Brasil/Gideon Mendel
While the climate crisis grows increasingly enormous, photographers like South African Gideon Mendel break the silence and show how it devastates communities around the world.
At the very heart of Mendel’s ambitious photographic project “Drowning World” are images of people in moments of struggle. They do not hide; they face the camera lens and the various calamities that come their way head-on.
These photos, which Mendel collected over more than 15 years of work, attest to his trips to every corner of the world.
From Brazil to Nigeria, passing through the United States and arriving at Thailand, Mendel takes pictures both of women and men in every walk of life without distinction. At any rate, floods cannot differentiate between them.
Through his lens, Mendel makes us see in stark real-time detail that it is a real climate disaster; one in which the consequences are deadly dire, and one in which not another minute can afford to be lost.
We must face it head-on-no turning of the head-just like these people stare at us straight in the eye from Mendel’s striking pictures and beg action.
Maybe they are far away, yet in truth, it could have been us.
The climate crisis spares nobody!
