Recently, my first contribution to Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's international broadcaster was published. The ten-part photo series about how the Senegalese city of Saint-Louis is slowly disappearing into the sea can be watched on both their old and their new beta website.
Coastal erosion
New work for El País: How climate change is affecting Saint-Louis, Senegal
New work for Trouw: how Saint-Louis is swallowed by the sea
On the Atlantic coast of Senegal, the historic fishing town of Saint-Louis is slowly disappearing into the sea. Climate change and coastal erosion causes houses, mosques and schools to be swallowed by the salt water.
For Trouw, I wrote a longread about what’s going on in the Northwest of Senegal. To read the story and see some of the photos and videos I shot in Senegal, follow this link.
I have spent almost a week in Saint-Louis to talk to politicians, self-taught climate experts who lost their village to the rising water, school teachers and fishermen (who now are displaced and have to live in a plastic village built by the World Bank).
All can be seen in the trailer I made for the multimedia story, which can be found below. The story will soon be published internationally by other outlets, but if you can read Dutch, you can check it out in Dutch by clicking here:
Rising sea levels in Mombasa: a story for Samsam
For Dutch newspaper / magazine Samsam, I met up with Swabir, a 12 year old boy who lives in the Kenyan city of Mombasa. His father is Head of Education at the renowned Fort Jesus, the number one cultural attraction of Kenya’s coastal area. But the fort has seen better days: due to coastal erosion, rising sea levels and erosion caused by rain water (all linked to climate change), the centuries old structure is deteriorating rapidly.
Together with Raphael Igombo and his son Swabir, I visited the fort to have a look at the recently constructed wall that should protect Fort Jesus for the next hundred years. You can read the story in the current edition of Samsam, online on their website or you can click on the image below to enlarge the article. Samsam is a magazine and learning method, which is distributed to and used by primary schools all over The Netherlands.