Women returning home after collecting water from a nearby river, walking across large deposits of Geotextile bags put together to protect the embankment from the rising Brahmaputra river from causing soil erosion during peak monsoon season in Majuli island, Assam, India. Every monsoon, floods in the Brahmaputra inundates the island and cause erosion, washing away villages and displacing residents. Once the largest river island in the world, with an area of 1,256 sq km, it has now shrunk to less than half its size, to 352 sq km. The rate of erosion is so severe that data suggests that it is likely to submerge the island in the next 15-20 years.
2873 Woman collecting water, walking over a mass of geotextile bags flood barrier on the banks of the Brahmaputra river 2. Impacts, 1. Causes, 3. Solutions, 4. Justice, 6. Adaptation, 5. Resilience Climate Visuals Principles: 1. Show real people not staged photo-ops, 2. Tell new stories, 6. Show local (but serious) climate impacts, 3. Show climate causes at scale, 4. Climate impacts are emotionally powerful, 5. Understand your audience, 8. Sustainability must be everyones objective Women returning home after collecting water from a nearby river, walking across large deposits of Geotextile bags put together to protect the embankment from the rising Brahmaputra river from causing soil erosion during peak monsoon season in Majuli island, Assam, India. Every monsoon, floods in the Brahmaputra inundates the island and cause erosion, washing away villages and displacing residents. Once the largest river island in the world, with an area of 1,256 sq km, it has now shrunk to less than half its size, to 352 sq km. The rate of erosion is so severe that data suggests that it is likely to submerge the island in the next 15-20 years. City: Assam Region: Majuli Country: India 02/02/2019 Agency: Climate Visuals Countdown Creative Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Mandatory Credit: Kunga Tashi Lepcha / Climate Visuals Countdown My name is Kunga Tashi Lepcha, and I am an independent photographer based out of Gangtok, Sikkim. My work mostly revolves around the notions of space, identity, and memories. I was part of the 2018 Angkor Photo Workshop/Festival, Cambodia for a two weeks visual storytelling mentorship program. In 2016, I was part of the Project Denjong team, which carried out the digitization, preservation, and cataloging of old documents and photographs of the 'Sikkim Palace Archives' (1875-1975) under the British Library’s Endangered Archive Programme and Arcadia. In 2019, I received the Amiyaprabha Chaudhuri Memorial Grant from the Egaro Photo Festival for my long-term photo project ‘Days Of Summer’. Based on the youths in Gangtok, Sikkim. In 2020, I and a few of my colleagues started a collective, called “The Confluence Collective”, which is a collective of photographers and researchers working to create an alternative space to understand the Sikkim-Darjeeling Hills region and its history beyond the homogenized, colonial discourses that continue to dominate the understanding of the place. The collective was born out because of the need to have space for like-minded people to collaborate, share, learn and grow in the total absence of any civil society in our region. Photographer name: Kunga Tashi Lepcha Photographer based in: India Social media: https://www.instagram.com/kunga_tashi/ Website: http://www.kungatashi.com/
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