DROUGHT
It’s slow, quiet, and relentless. Drought doesn’t show up in one dramatic moment, it creeps in as reservoirs drop, wells run dry, and the ground cracks open under a relentless sun. I’ve stood on parched lakebeds and beside stranded houseboats, always struck by how much a place changes when the water disappears. This kind of extreme dry used
to be rare, but as California swings harder between drought and deluge, it’s lasting longer and biting deeper every year. Documenting water, or the lack of it, is one of the stories I care most about, so I hope my passion for telling these visual stories is apparent through this set of images taken across the drought zone.
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