Photographic Essay: Sink or Swim - Designing for a Sea of Change
An exhibition by the Annenberg Space for Photography
Arambagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2009. After a night of heavy rain, Dhaka experienced widespread flooding around
the city. Photo: Jonas Bendiksen
The roller coaster from the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, USA, partially submerged in the ocean after
Hurricane Sandy. Photo: Stephen Wilkes courtesy of Peter Fetterman Gallery
Global Green’s Holy Cross community project, Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Photo: Stephen Wilkes
TV in the sand post Hurricane Katrina, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, USA. Photo: Stephen Wilke
Tacloban, Philippines, 20 November 2013. A man hammers away amidst the destruction caused byTyphoon Haiyan
(also known as Yolanda), which hit the islands of Leyte and Samar on 8 November 2013.
Photo: Paula Bronstein/Reportage by Getty Images
A woman makes her way down the seawall along the Kitakama and Ainokama coastline in Sendai, Japan. After the
tsunami in 2011, the Japanese government has spent billions of yen on the reconstruction of a 31.8 km seawall
along the Sendai coastline. Photo: Paula Bronstein
Pabna, Bangladesh, 2010. The nongovernmental organization Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha runs a fleet of more
than 50 floating schools and libraries in an effort to provide basic education in a severely flood-prone area.
Photo: Jonas Bendiksen
Gaibandha District, Bangladesh, 2010. During the harvest of jute, villagers rest above the floodwaters of the
surging Brahmaputra River. A simple adaptation in flood-prone areas is building every house on a two-meter tall
mud plinth. Photo: Jonas Bendiksen
Watervilla de Omval, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Photo: Iwan Baan
Stilt houses, Ganvie, Benin. Photo: Iwan Baan
Ganvie, Benin. Photo: Iwan Baan