The signal of the sea


  • Photographer
    Rodney Dekker
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2010 & 2011

This series portrays a way of life underneath the backdrop of climate change impacting on two South Pacific island communities, Tuvalu and Kiribati. These fragile coral atolls are only a few meters above sea level at their highest points and hence they are vulnerable to sea level rise and associated climate change impacts. The Director of Tuvalu Meteorological Service, Hilia Vavae, says residents see the impacts of sea level rise with “our own eyes, our own observations, we have never had this flooding as intense as this. The signal of the sea level is actually rising”.

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