Together against the catastrophe
Award-winning photographer Noor Ahmed Gelal portrays people whose lives are threatened by climate change. And yet they are successfully resisting it with a sense of community and respect for nature. This is the subject of a new book, a joint German-Bangladeshi project.
Sven Wagner
Sven Wagner
The plains and river regions of Bangladesh bear witness to the fatal effects of excessive consumption, resource depletion, and misguided international climate policy. Families fighting poverty, eroded riverbanks leaving destruction in their wake, and the community, solidarity, and knowledge of those people in the village all of this encompasses life in rural Bangladesh. Bangladeshi photographer Noor Ahmed Gelal, whose work has appeared in national dailies and at exhibitions around the world including Singapore, China, Paris, and Italy, captures this life in his photographs. For good reason, for these regions are the scenes of the greatest challenge of our