Watermarks

Work in progress.

Watermarks is a photographic project that looks at five regions of the UK likely to be most effected by sea-level rise in the course of the next 100 years. Each region is represented by three case studies comprising recorded interviews and portraits of people who live and work in the area, as well as a series of landscape images that form a portrait of the region itself.

Although the project is concerned with climate change, its broader aim is to present a cultural and historical context for the multitude of climate statistics. In the face of complex and often contradictory predictions it's easy to forget that changing water-levels have already had an impact on life in the UK. By documenting a variety of case studies Watermarks will show how this impact is often more complex and ambiguous than we might assume.