Life in Miami on the Knife’s Edge of Climate Change | The New Yorker

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Life in Miami on the Knife’s Edge of Climate Change

In “FloodZone,” the photographer Anastasia Samoylova’s first task is to understand the seductive contradiction of a place drowning in its own mythical images as it also drowns in water.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/life-in-miami-on-the-knifes-edge-of-climate-change-anastasia-samoylova

When a hurricane approaches, the air tingles. The sea does strange things. In minutes, the sky can turn from azure blue to slate gray. Turbulence comes out of nowhere. You can picture what follows, and many photographers do, but you will find no images of catastrophe in Anastasia Samoylova’s “FloodZone.” She is looking for other things, the subtler signs of what awaits the populations that cluster along shorelines. What is it to live day by day on a climatic knife’s edge? What psychological state does it demand? Hurricanes are sudden and violent; sea-level rise is insidious and creeping. The low-level dread of slow change, and the shock of sudden extremes. Climate and weather.