Work by Farhana Satu / Installation photo by Anh Nguyen.
The works featured in this exhibition were developed in Magnum Foundation’s Photography Expanded: Heat Fellowship, which supports new photographic storytelling about the climate crisis and the inextricable relationship of communities to land.
Come see the exhibition during this open hours event for visitors:
Saturday, April 18, 2025 | 2:00 - 5:00 PM ET
59 East 4th St, 7W | New York, NY 10003
From the dried-up Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, Zumrad Mirzalieva portrays a former port town living in the wake of overextraction, still reverberating with the echoes of a lost sea. In Ghana, Ofoe Amegavie recalls learning how his grandfather’s home in the Volta River Basin was washed away by the ocean in the 1980’s. Following the upwards path of the river, he uncovers his country’s long history of environmental displacement. On the Bagerhat River in Bangladesh, rising salinity levels and persistent flooding are damaging women’s health, a process reflected in Farhana Satu’s eroded portraits. And along the Teesta river in Sikkim, northeast India, Kunga Tashi Lepcha honors the spiritual and ecological knowledge that has sustained his community’s decades-long resistance to the hydroelectric projects devastating their sacred lands.
Across four bodies of water—each transformed by power, extraction, and the shadows of colonialism—these photographers honor the people and landscapes that, through it all, remain.
This exhibition is made possible the Rosenthal Family Foundation, the Geneviève McMillan-Reba Stewart Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
Magnum Foundation is in an elevator building and has a restroom that is wheelchair accessible and gender-neutral. For access requests or questions, please contact events@magnumfoundation.org. Masks are currently appreciated, but not required.
