A woman comes back from a public water place with a natural pond. Many women and girls engage in this daily work every morning, even though it is hard to get fresh water in Gabura Union due to rising salinity levels in water resources.
An elderly man brings a lot of straw on his head.
View of the inland of Gabura Union. Salinity intrusion into soil and water resources makes it nearly impossible to grow any plants in such a place.
Men flatten the road to sandbag a bank. Cyclones, floods, and erosion often destroy many riverside roads in Gabura Union.
A fisherwoman catches small fishes and shrimps near the sandbags that have gradually sunken in the river due to rising water levels. Such scenery is often seen on the riverside of Gabura Union.
A fisherwoman who looks for places that can catch fish or shrimp in the pond.
A child herdsman tends some cows. It is difficult to find grass for bait due to submerging after floods.
Two women who walk on sandbags are pilled up. Such a road condition is often seen along the river in Gabura Union. In some places, people need to go to their destination on foot.
A boy rows a wooden boat on the Kholpetua River. This river often causes problems such as soil degradation caused by rising water levels, river erosion, and flooding, even though it is seemingly calm.
Women wait for a boat by the eroded river bank.
A man looks after his baby by the Kholpetua River.
Fishermen who fish on the Kholpetua River. Such a peaceful scenery may be lost by the impacts of climate change shortly.
A migrant boy who evacuated from the south coastal area due to river erosion sleeps in the forest near Dhaka station.
A boy sleeps under the station passageway to shelter himself from the rain. There are many climate migrants around Dhaka station.
Boys who evacuated from various local areas due to natural disasters inhale solution gum. They live with other children who are living on the roadside and often fall into a chemical addiction.
The dump site in Dhaka. Some climate migrants work in dumpsites to earn daily money.
The boys play on garbage floating on the river by the Korail slum. The Korail is the biggest slum in Dhaka, and many climate migrants live here permanently or temporarily.
Portraits of the climate migrants, like ID cards. ID cards are the most important thing, especially for climate migrants fleeing from or lost their hometowns, to identify themselves. This picture shows the existence and faces of climate migrants that can not seen in a number.
Men are standing near the breakwater under construction in Bohol Island. Bohol Island suffered damage from super Typhoon Rai (Odette) in 2021.
A boy watches a movie on a hammock at Nubiangan in Manila. Nubiangan is one of the most affected areas by rising sea levels in the Philippines and is predicted to sink into the sea in the future.
The boys are playing around the house, which was damaged by the earthquake in 2013 and the supertyphoon Rai in 2021.
Children play inside a building damaged by the cyclone Odette.
An elderly man draws water while driving in the rain.
A girl looks out the window at the rain . Most houses in Binuangan are predicted to sink into the water because sea levels have gradually risen.
The family has a peaceful time near the barricade under construction to protect from high waves.
Parent and child pass through the trees.
This project, "The Chronicle of Us" aims to record one of the histories of the 21st century through the story of climate migrations worldwide and people who are likely to be forced to flee from their hometowns due to the impacts of climate change.
The 20th century is called “the century of refugees,” the vast number of people were forced to flee their homes due to conflicts, genocide, persecution, and political or religious reasons.
In addition to those reasons, large-scale migration in the 21st century is also caused by the impacts of climate change in all sorts of places in the world, and it has rapidly increased at an unprecedented scale beyond our imagination since the beginning of this century.
As of the end of 2023, approximately 26.4 million climate migrants are forced to leave their hometowns due to the impacts of unusual weather events such as intensifying tropical cyclones, monsoon rainfalls, massive floods, severe drought, rising sea levels, saltwater intrusion, wildfire, and heatwaves, and many of them have been inflicted severe and long-term financial and mental burdens after migration even though they are seeking a safe and secure life.
From now on, there will be an increasing number of them if it is not addressed immediately by people's hands before it becomes irreversible, and this century will be called “the century of climate migration” in the future.
I aim to record the flow of the history of the 21st century through this project, which consists of photo stories of six chapters and over ten thousand portraits of climate migrants.
Each chapter is divided by region, each with the characteristics of climate change impacts: chapter 1 is about South-Southeast Asia and the Pacific regions, chapter 2 is about Central Asia and the Middle Eastern regions, chapter 3 is about the European region, chapter 4 is about the African region, chapter 5 is about the North American region, and chapter 6 is about Latin America.