PORTRAITS FROM THE EDGE: PUTTING A FACE TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Jon Lewis, Anniversary Dancers-Eita Maneaba, 80 x 140 cm, laminated photographic print on Gatorboard
Jon Lewis, Anniversary Dancers-Eita Maneaba, 80 x 140 cm, laminated photographic print on Gatorboard

Jon Lewis

The small Republic of Kiribati, a series of atolls situated in the Equatorial Pacific, is slowly and surely going down. Storm surges, freakish waves, salination of fresh water wells and lands, unpredictable
weather and tidal increases, are all contributing to the country’s physical demise.
The people of Kiribati remain now, literally on the very edge, as the most vulnerable of peoples, living with climate change.
Jon Lewis spent six months travelling through the atolls of Kiribati, recording his experiences of the people and place and presents 46 images portraying the vibrant social system and culture. A record for history before the certain extinction in 30 to 40 years.

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