All photos © Mathias Braschler & Monika Fischer. Above: Peru, Juliana Pacco

In 2009, Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer  traveled to sixteen countries around the world, taking photographs of and conducting interviews with people whose existence is threatened by the consequences of climate change. One of the greatest floods in the history of his region destroyed the home and business owned by Yang Gengbao and his wife in the Chinese province of Guangxi. The drying up of Lake Chad means that Abakar Maydocou Mahamat can no longer earn his livelihood as a fisherman. Margaret Aliurtuq Nickerson from western Alaska will soon have to leave her village, Newtok, since the ground is thawing, causing homes and streets to sink. Braschler and Fischer’s new book, The Human Face of Climate Change published by Hatje Cantz, will be released this Fall in the US.  The project will also travel in exhibition form to the Bermuda National Gallery in Hamilton, Bermuda and Coalmine Fotogalerie in Winterthur, Switzerland.

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Photo by Chris Anthony. Photographed in Venice Beach, California, Anthony’s “Venice” series is inspired by global warming, rising sea levels and the idea of a sinking civilization. The Corey Helford Gallery is showing Anthony’s work at an exhibition space at 6086 Comey Avenue, Los Angeles, from March 28 until April 18, 2009. The opening reception is March 28 from 7 to 10 p.m.