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Sana Ahmadizadeh (Iran), A place to live
The oil-rich and industrial city in Khuzestan Province supplies about 87% of Iran’s oil demand. Ahvaz is at the peak of its environmental crisis due to drought in the wetlands, Karun river water transmission, and dust storms; the city which respiratory patients’ data are still classified. Dust storms have increased respiratory diseases mortality and immigration from Ahvaz since 2002. In addition to the internal sources of dust, Iraq and Saudi Arabia are also two main sources of particulates. This environmental crisis has become more complicated war and continuous drought in Iraq, economic pressures brought about by re-enforced nuclear sanctions on Iran by the United States, increased diplomatic tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and the lack of cooperation of the Arab countries in the region.
Sana left Ahvaz in 2017 on the advice of doctors due to my respiratory illness. These images reflect the days when breathing have become a bitter and painful experience for her.
“A Place to Live” is a personal journey about her emotions and relationships with the environment where she stayed until partial improvement of my health, an environment that reminds her two generations of displaced people. This is a long term series intended to picture her personal experiences affected by this environmental crisis, whose impacts could go beyond the geographical boundaries of Iran.
Sana Ahmadizade
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Sana Ahmadizadeh (Iran), A place to live
The oil-rich and industrial city in Khuzestan Province supplies about 87% of Iran’s oil demand. Ahvaz is at the peak of its environmental crisis due to drought in the wetlands, Karun river water transmission, and dust storms; the city which respiratory patients’ data are still classified. Dust storms have increased respiratory diseases mortality and immigration from Ahvaz since 2002. In addition to the internal sources of dust, Iraq and Saudi Arabia are also two main sources of particulates. This environmental crisis has become more complicated war and continuous drought in Iraq, economic pressures brought about by re-enforced nuclear sanctions on Iran by the United States, increased diplomatic tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and the lack of cooperation of the Arab countries in the region.
Sana left Ahvaz in 2017 on the advice of doctors due to my respiratory illness. These images reflect the days when breathing have become a bitter and painful experience for her.
“A Place to Live” is a personal journey about her emotions and relationships with the environment where she stayed until partial improvement of my health, an environment that reminds her two generations of displaced people. This is a long term series intended to picture her personal experiences affected by this environmental crisis, whose impacts could go beyond the geographical boundaries of Iran.
Sana Ahmadizade
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Igor Elukov (Russia), The Book of Miracles
The series is titled after the Augsburg Book of Miracles, a 16th century German illustrated manuscript listing the supernatural phenomena from the Flood to the time of the book’s completion. The events described in the manuscript reveal the involvement of God in the human world. In contrast, Igor read “The Book of Miracles” from the position of cosmocentrism. It is a story about forces and elements that are indifferent to us and capable of destroying us; and about the need to seek harmony with these forces. About good and unkind premonitions and fragility of life. This is a view at an ecosystem in which it is impossible to separate a man from nature and nature from space. The goal of the project was to find technology that allows only partial control of the result, so that each picture was taken in collaboration with the elements, landscape, fauna. Creating images in reality, rather than using computer technology, gave the necessary restrictions on the artist’s “all-powerful”, helping to compress the essence of the vision into a concentrated form, as in the art of Japanese haiku. Production was based on staged photographs of real objects and locations, the use of pyrotechnic effects, the creation of light installations, large- scale physical layouts integrated into the natural environment, and work with animals.
Igor Elukov
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Igor Elukov (Russia), The Book of Miracles
The series is titled after the Augsburg Book of Miracles, a 16th century German illustrated manuscript listing the supernatural phenomena from the Flood to the time of the book’s completion. The events described in the manuscript reveal the involvement of God in the human world. In contrast, Igor read “The Book of Miracles” from the position of cosmocentrism. It is a story about forces and elements that are indifferent to us and capable of destroying us; and about the need to seek harmony with these forces. About good and unkind premonitions and fragility of life. This is a view at an ecosystem in which it is impossible to separate a man from nature and nature from space. The goal of the project was to find technology that allows only partial control of the result, so that each picture was taken in collaboration with the elements, landscape, fauna. Creating images in reality, rather than using computer technology, gave the necessary restrictions on the artist’s “all-powerful”, helping to compress the essence of the vision into a concentrated form, as in the art of Japanese haiku. Production was based on staged photographs of real objects and locations, the use of pyrotechnic effects, the creation of light installations, large- scale physical layouts integrated into the natural environment, and work with animals.
Igor Elukov
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Pietro Lo Casto (Italy), To Search the Secret of the Forest
A complex relationship between man and nature defines life in the village of Tangia Basti. A sprawling forest surrounding the community provides and, at times, even takes away. Inherited cultural beliefs and mysterious rituals bind the lives of the inhabitants to the land. The community has been living in a state of uncertainty for more than 25 years due to the proposed construction of an airport. The village is completely cut off from the national electricity grid, houses have no running water and there's no telephone connection. In spite of this fragility, people have built roads and schools, grown resilient and created a lively existence. In recent times discussions around the project have intensified. If built, Nijghad International Airport will cause displacement and large deforestation. What will be the consequences of the impending development? How can the destruction of our very habitat be seen as our economic and social growth? How do we compensate for the displacement of a community? What kind of life lies beyond the forest for the people of Tangia Basti?
Pietro Lo Casto
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Pietro Lo Casto (Italy), To Search the Secret of the Forest
A complex relationship between man and nature defines life in the village of Tangia Basti. A sprawling forest surrounding the community provides and, at times, even takes away. Inherited cultural beliefs and mysterious rituals bind the lives of the inhabitants to the land. The community has been living in a state of uncertainty for more than 25 years due to the proposed construction of an airport. The village is completely cut off from the national electricity grid, houses have no running water and there's no telephone connection. In spite of this fragility, people have built roads and schools, grown resilient and created a lively existence. In recent times discussions around the project have intensified. If built, Nijghad International Airport will cause displacement and large deforestation. What will be the consequences of the impending development? How can the destruction of our very habitat be seen as our economic and social growth? How do we compensate for the displacement of a community? What kind of life lies beyond the forest for the people of Tangia Basti?
Pietro Lo Casto
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Mattia Marzorati (Italy), The Land of Holes
Over the last hundred years the city of Brescia and its province have experienced an exceptional economic development, mainly thanks to the engineering and mining sectors, to whose gravel and sand quarries we owe the name of "land of holes". Thanks to the presence of these huge quarries to be filled, the business of waste and the uncontrolled production by many companies have led to disastrous consequences for the territory and the people: the incidence of cancer and other pathologies is much higher here than in rest of the country; moreover, the province can boast the presence of one of the biggest incinerators in Europe, the greatest concentration of landfills in the continent, the largest radioactive site in Italy, the widest and worst contamination by PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) ever recorded in the world. People living in the area reflect the contradictions created by an unsustainable, self-destructive and difficult-to-eradicate economic system. Public committees and environmentalists, who are trying to fight these policies, face the stark opposition from institutions and the indifference of most of their fellow-citizens, poorly informed and mainly concerned about maintaining their economic well-being. During the last weeks many studies are linking the exceptional spread and lethality of covid-19 in this area with the pre-existing extremely serious air contamination. In this context, the struggle of a few people seems to be the only – perhaps utopic – form of opposition.
Mattia Marzorati
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Mattia Marzorati (Italy), The Land of Holes
Over the last hundred years the city of Brescia and its province have experienced an exceptional economic development, mainly thanks to the engineering and mining sectors, to whose gravel and sand quarries we owe the name of "land of holes". Thanks to the presence of these huge quarries to be filled, the business of waste and the uncontrolled production by many companies have led to disastrous consequences for the territory and the people: the incidence of cancer and other pathologies is much higher here than in rest of the country; moreover, the province can boast the presence of one of the biggest incinerators in Europe, the greatest concentration of landfills in the continent, the largest radioactive site in Italy, the widest and worst contamination by PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) ever recorded in the world. People living in the area reflect the contradictions created by an unsustainable, self-destructive and difficult-to-eradicate economic system. Public committees and environmentalists, who are trying to fight these policies, face the stark opposition from institutions and the indifference of most of their fellow-citizens, poorly informed and mainly concerned about maintaining their economic well-being. During the last weeks many studies are linking the exceptional spread and lethality of covid-19 in this area with the pre-existing extremely serious air contamination. In this context, the struggle of a few people seems to be the only – perhaps utopic – form of opposition.
Mattia Marzorati
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Kaveer Rai (India), Cyclone Fani - After the storm
Cyclone Fani originated from a tropical depression that formed west of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean on 26 April, and traveled towards India, making landfall with the speed of 175 kilometers per hour to 185 kilometers per hour on the morning of 3 May, 2019 at Puri, Orissa. 64 people lost their lives in the cyclone, while earlier cyclones had claimed thousands of lives in the region. The world hailed the Orissa government for its successful evacuation of 11,000,000 people against an ‘Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm’. The estimated loss in the state is approximately Rs 12,000 crore, and basic resources like housing, electricity, water and telecommunications have been badly hit. The Orissa government announced help for all those who suffered; the relief for each family comprises 50 kilos of rice, one tarpaulin sheet and a sum of Rs 2,000 per month. Puri district was found to be the most affected, and in the aftermath of the storm, those who have been left behind to pick up the scattered pieces of the past with a hope to survive and rebuild in the present.
Kaveer Rai
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Kaveer Rai (India), Cyclone Fani - After the storm
Cyclone Fani originated from a tropical depression that formed west of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean on 26 April, and traveled towards India, making landfall with the speed of 175 kilometers per hour to 185 kilometers per hour on the morning of 3 May, 2019 at Puri, Orissa. 64 people lost their lives in the cyclone, while earlier cyclones had claimed thousands of lives in the region. The world hailed the Orissa government for its successful evacuation of 11,000,000 people against an ‘Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm’. The estimated loss in the state is approximately Rs 12,000 crore, and basic resources like housing, electricity, water and telecommunications have been badly hit. The Orissa government announced help for all those who suffered; the relief for each family comprises 50 kilos of rice, one tarpaulin sheet and a sum of Rs 2,000 per month. Puri district was found to be the most affected, and in the aftermath of the storm, those who have been left behind to pick up the scattered pieces of the past with a hope to survive and rebuild in the present.
Kaveer Rai
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Isadora Romero (Ecuador), Extremophiles
This is a visual story that contains photographs and objects obtained during the XXIII Ecuadorian Antarctic expedition. This project explores the human presence on the white continent, bringing out the absurdities and contradictions of the human species. At a time when the need for conservation of the planet is being urgently discussed, but the actions needed directly contradicts the geopolitical and economic interests that prevail in human societies that abuse natural resources, it is strange to think of a utopian and mysterious continent like Antarctica. A place destined merely for scientific study, but where nevertheless, many exploitations interests are latent. This space of which we have widely known its landscapes and fauna, in our imagination the human species does not appear as one that arrives by seasons and intervenes in its environment. As part of the scientific committee of the XXIII Ecuadorian expedition to the continent, Isadora decided to carry out an artistic-anthropological-scientific study of the human species, in turn questioning the hegemony that Western science has in our collective imaginary.
Isadora Romero
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Isadora Romero (Ecuador), Extremophiles
This is a visual story that contains photographs and objects obtained during the XXIII Ecuadorian Antarctic expedition. This project explores the human presence on the white continent, bringing out the absurdities and contradictions of the human species. At a time when the need for conservation of the planet is being urgently discussed, but the actions needed directly contradicts the geopolitical and economic interests that prevail in human societies that abuse natural resources, it is strange to think of a utopian and mysterious continent like Antarctica. A place destined merely for scientific study, but where nevertheless, many exploitations interests are latent. This space of which we have widely known its landscapes and fauna, in our imagination the human species does not appear as one that arrives by seasons and intervenes in its environment. As part of the scientific committee of the XXIII Ecuadorian expedition to the continent, Isadora decided to carry out an artistic-anthropological-scientific study of the human species, in turn questioning the hegemony that Western science has in our collective imaginary.
Isadora Romero
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Michele Sibiloni (Italy), Nsenene
Grasshoppers, "nsenene" in the local language, are both a delicacy and a source of income in Uganda. They migrate en masse twice a year, right after the rainy seasons, flooding the sky in huge flocks before daybreak. Every night, a large part of the population stays up till twilight to hunt and sell them. Traps made of barrels and metal sheets are placed everywhere, even on rooftops, and strong light bulbs are used to attract the insects. The ubiquitous presence of the crickets and the overall green shade dispersed by the night mist and the smoke of bonfires create a otherworldly scenario, enhanced by the oddness of the hunting techniques and self-made equipment. In recent years, though, deforestation has heavily reduced the number of insects that migrate and climate change across Africa has made seasonal rains difficult to predict. Timing when to set the traps is crucial and doing it imprecisely can jeopardize the harvest and result in a serious loss. This body of work aims to create an opportunity for reflection on the relationship between humankind and nature. As global crisis such as climate emergency and COVID19 are demonstrating, any event that we first perceive as remote could in fact drastically change our daily lives. The project wants to underline that even what looks like a dystopian future is part of our present; in its dangers, but also in its potentials. For example, the crickets’ high protein content makes them a potential food resource for the future, which could reduce world hunger and improve food safety.
Michele Sibiloni
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Michele Sibiloni (Italy), Nsenene
Grasshoppers, "nsenene" in the local language, are both a delicacy and a source of income in Uganda. They migrate en masse twice a year, right after the rainy seasons, flooding the sky in huge flocks before daybreak. Every night, a large part of the population stays up till twilight to hunt and sell them. Traps made of barrels and metal sheets are placed everywhere, even on rooftops, and strong light bulbs are used to attract the insects. The ubiquitous presence of the crickets and the overall green shade dispersed by the night mist and the smoke of bonfires create a otherworldly scenario, enhanced by the oddness of the hunting techniques and self-made equipment. In recent years, though, deforestation has heavily reduced the number of insects that migrate and climate change across Africa has made seasonal rains difficult to predict. Timing when to set the traps is crucial and doing it imprecisely can jeopardize the harvest and result in a serious loss. This body of work aims to create an opportunity for reflection on the relationship between humankind and nature. As global crisis such as climate emergency and COVID19 are demonstrating, any event that we first perceive as remote could in fact drastically change our daily lives. The project wants to underline that even what looks like a dystopian future is part of our present; in its dangers, but also in its potentials. For example, the crickets’ high protein content makes them a potential food resource for the future, which could reduce world hunger and improve food safety.
Michele Sibiloni
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Jakub Stanek (Poland), In Anticipation of the Sun
Something stopped us that day. Even now, I don’t know exactly what it was. It all began at an unnaturally early hour. For me at least. Kajtek is an old hand at spooning down porridge at 5:30 in the morning. Outside the window, Egyptian darkness. We were waiting for the sun. In winter, it sleeps in, rolls out of bed hours after Kajtek, who was already sitting astride his sled in the hallway. I opened the window, encouraging the caffeine to circulate through my veins. Chest pain hit with the first inhalation. Asthma was up, too. Smell of chimneys burning. It wasn’t smoke rising from the familiar shapes in the yard, not exactly. It was a fog, dense as the dead of night. A violent act perpetrated against a pinned-down sun. I rubbed my gummy eyes. Called to Kajtek. Nose squished to the windowpane, eyes open wide, his mouth forming the question of the day: “Dad, what’s that?” Through a mental mist, an answer emerged from a geography lesson of yore. “Clouds on Earth, son!” Something stopped us that day. Alert! Alarm! Smog! So we took off our hats and one-piece snowsuits, disappointedly stowed the sled. I closed the window. The smog transmogrified into a baleful dragon, writhing in the skies above the city. Kajtek had already armed himself with sword and shield. I, too, believed we could defend ourselves. I answered questions. I wove a tale, of verbs and adjectives, with exclamation points! Kajtek covered a sheet of paper as white as snow with grey and black graphite. We spun the globe, seeking to pinpoint the dragon’s lair. Brush-stroked Chinese characters appeared before my mind’s eye. Cough. I cannot speak. I cannot write. But I can look. I can show. The idea expelled itself from me like a cough. Biological, organic. An unconditional reflex of a concept. I owe it to my son. To you, too. And to the planet. To exhibit smog to the world. To expose its nebulous face. Something stopped us that day. We were held motionless, in anticipation of the sun.
Jakub Stanek
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Jakub Stanek (Poland), In Anticipation of the Sun
Something stopped us that day. Even now, I don’t know exactly what it was. It all began at an unnaturally early hour. For me at least. Kajtek is an old hand at spooning down porridge at 5:30 in the morning. Outside the window, Egyptian darkness. We were waiting for the sun. In winter, it sleeps in, rolls out of bed hours after Kajtek, who was already sitting astride his sled in the hallway. I opened the window, encouraging the caffeine to circulate through my veins. Chest pain hit with the first inhalation. Asthma was up, too. Smell of chimneys burning. It wasn’t smoke rising from the familiar shapes in the yard, not exactly. It was a fog, dense as the dead of night. A violent act perpetrated against a pinned-down sun. I rubbed my gummy eyes. Called to Kajtek. Nose squished to the windowpane, eyes open wide, his mouth forming the question of the day: “Dad, what’s that?” Through a mental mist, an answer emerged from a geography lesson of yore. “Clouds on Earth, son!” Something stopped us that day. Alert! Alarm! Smog! So we took off our hats and one-piece snowsuits, disappointedly stowed the sled. I closed the window. The smog transmogrified into a baleful dragon, writhing in the skies above the city. Kajtek had already armed himself with sword and shield. I, too, believed we could defend ourselves. I answered questions. I wove a tale, of verbs and adjectives, with exclamation points! Kajtek covered a sheet of paper as white as snow with grey and black graphite. We spun the globe, seeking to pinpoint the dragon’s lair. Brush-stroked Chinese characters appeared before my mind’s eye. Cough. I cannot speak. I cannot write. But I can look. I can show. The idea expelled itself from me like a cough. Biological, organic. An unconditional reflex of a concept. I owe it to my son. To you, too. And to the planet. To exhibit smog to the world. To expose its nebulous face. Something stopped us that day. We were held motionless, in anticipation of the sun.
Jakub Stanek
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Misha Vallejo (Ecuador), Secret Sarayaku
Amazon Rainforest: A small indigenous community, confronted with the interests of Big Oil, fights to preserve its land using the tools of its ancestors and the Internet. The Kichwa people of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest have always held a physical and spiritual connection with the jungle in order to maintain equilibrium within their world. They believe in the Kawsak Sacha or Living Forest, which is based on the idea that the jungle is a living, conscious and rights-bearing entity, where all elements, including plants, animals, humans, rivers, wind, stars, etc., are alive, have a spirit and are interconnected. If one is damaged, it will trigger a chain reaction affecting all other parts of the jungle. Thus, the Kichwa take from the jungle only what they need to survive and nothing more. They believe that protecting their home is fundamental not only to their own survival, but to that of humanity. The community believes that we are all part of this big and complex organism that we call Earth. Everything that affects them, affects all of us. Everything is connected. In emphasis with this connection, the Sarayaku have used social media to become cyber-activists: they spread their environmental message and connect with supporters across the globe via a social media through a satellite Internet connection. The community is convinced that by sharing their ancestral knowledge, they will inspire people around the globe to implement different strategies in the fight against climate change. They want to get known internationally, not out of vanity but rather because in this way it will be much harder for the government or big oil companies to disappear them. Nevertheless, this Internet connection with the “outside world” is a double-edged sword and has resulted in an ever-greater presence of Western culture within their everyday life. This is the price they pay while being at the forefront of climate change struggle.The question is where are we in this fight?
Misha Vallejo
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Misha Vallejo (Ecuador), Secret Sarayaku
Amazon Rainforest: A small indigenous community, confronted with the interests of Big Oil, fights to preserve its land using the tools of its ancestors and the Internet. The Kichwa people of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest have always held a physical and spiritual connection with the jungle in order to maintain equilibrium within their world. They believe in the Kawsak Sacha or Living Forest, which is based on the idea that the jungle is a living, conscious and rights-bearing entity, where all elements, including plants, animals, humans, rivers, wind, stars, etc., are alive, have a spirit and are interconnected. If one is damaged, it will trigger a chain reaction affecting all other parts of the jungle. Thus, the Kichwa take from the jungle only what they need to survive and nothing more. They believe that protecting their home is fundamental not only to their own survival, but to that of humanity. The community believes that we are all part of this big and complex organism that we call Earth. Everything that affects them, affects all of us. Everything is connected. In emphasis with this connection, the Sarayaku have used social media to become cyber-activists: they spread their environmental message and connect with supporters across the globe via a social media through a satellite Internet connection. The community is convinced that by sharing their ancestral knowledge, they will inspire people around the globe to implement different strategies in the fight against climate change. They want to get known internationally, not out of vanity but rather because in this way it will be much harder for the government or big oil companies to disappear them. Nevertheless, this Internet connection with the “outside world” is a double-edged sword and has resulted in an ever-greater presence of Western culture within their everyday life. This is the price they pay while being at the forefront of climate change struggle.The question is where are we in this fight?
Misha Vallejo
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Ami Vitale (United States), The Guardian Warriors
I began this story ten years ago, after I heard about a plan to airlift four of the world’s last northern white rhinos from a zoo in the Czech Republic to Kenya. It was a desperate, last-ditch effort to save a species. At the time, there were only eight of these rhinos left, all living in captivity. When I saw this gentle, hulking creature in the Czech snow, surrounded by smokestacks and humanity, it seemed so unfair. He looked ancient, part of a species that has lived on this planet for millions of years, yet could not survive humanity. On March 19, 2018, I made the heartbreaking journey back to Kenya to say goodbye to Sudan, the world's LAST male northern white rhino alive on the planet. This image is of the final moment when Joseph Wachira, one of Sudan's dedicated keepers, went to give him one more rub behind his ear before he died. Sudan leaned his heavy head into his. I took the photo of two old friends together for the last time. We are witnessing extinction right now, on our watch. Poaching is not slowing down. If the current trajectory of killing continues, it’s entirely possible that rhinos will be functionally extinct in our lifetime. Without rhinos and elephants and other wildlife we suffer more than loss of ecosystem health. We suffer a loss of imagination, a loss of wonder, a loss of beautiful possibilities. When we see ourselves as part of nature, we understand that saving nature is really about saving ourselves. Sudan taught me that. These are a series of images about the relationships and bonds between humans and endangered species. They understand how important our interconnectedness is for a healthy planet and not just with one another, but with the creatures we coexist with. We must begin to see our world as part of the natural world; the natural world as part of our world. Our fates are linked. Losing one part of nature, is a loss for all of nature.
Ami Vitale
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Ami Vitale (United States), The Guardian Warriors
I began this story ten years ago, after I heard about a plan to airlift four of the world’s last northern white rhinos from a zoo in the Czech Republic to Kenya. It was a desperate, last-ditch effort to save a species. At the time, there were only eight of these rhinos left, all living in captivity. When I saw this gentle, hulking creature in the Czech snow, surrounded by smokestacks and humanity, it seemed so unfair. He looked ancient, part of a species that has lived on this planet for millions of years, yet could not survive humanity. On March 19, 2018, I made the heartbreaking journey back to Kenya to say goodbye to Sudan, the world's LAST male northern white rhino alive on the planet. This image is of the final moment when Joseph Wachira, one of Sudan's dedicated keepers, went to give him one more rub behind his ear before he died. Sudan leaned his heavy head into his. I took the photo of two old friends together for the last time. We are witnessing extinction right now, on our watch. Poaching is not slowing down. If the current trajectory of killing continues, it’s entirely possible that rhinos will be functionally extinct in our lifetime. Without rhinos and elephants and other wildlife we suffer more than loss of ecosystem health. We suffer a loss of imagination, a loss of wonder, a loss of beautiful possibilities. When we see ourselves as part of nature, we understand that saving nature is really about saving ourselves. Sudan taught me that. These are a series of images about the relationships and bonds between humans and endangered species. They understand how important our interconnectedness is for a healthy planet and not just with one another, but with the creatures we coexist with. We must begin to see our world as part of the natural world; the natural world as part of our world. Our fates are linked. Losing one part of nature, is a loss for all of nature.
Ami Vitale
