Ghoramara and its sister islands in the Bay of Bengal are vanishing, their shoreline borders shifting, shrinking and sinking with rising temperatures and tides.
Jordi Pizarro had hardly reached the muddy banks of Ghoramara Island when he stumbled across a family struggling to hold up the dikes that protected their rice paddy from the Bay of Bengal’s brackish waters.
Jordi Pizarro The Story of a Dead Horse Ghoramara is the name of an Island, in Bengali language Ghoramara minds “a dead horse”. Long time ago there were Bengali tigers in the island. Th…
‘A Story of a Dead Horse’ sets out to capture the “human face” of climate change. To document the impact of rising sea levels and how the ever increasing number of cyclones threaten the livelihoods of farmers and fisherman, as land is eroded and, at times, entire islands sink into the sea.
Jordi Pizarro Disappearing Lands: The “Human Face” of Climate Change in the Sundarbans, India [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] ‘Disappearing Lands’ sets out to capture the ‘human…
‘Disappearing Lands’ sets out to capture the ‘human face’ of climate change. The delicate balance that has for many centuries existed in the Sundarbans between land, air, and sea, is today under threat, and in certain areas, the effects have been disastrous.
