ABOUT THE SERIES

The Echo of Our Voices is the fourth chapter of the series The Day May Break. It was photographed in Jordan, which is considered the second most water-scarce country in the world. The photographs feature refugee families, who fled the war in Syria and are now living in Jordan. Living lives of continuous displacement largely due to climate change, they are forced to move their homes up to several times a year, moving to where there is available agricultural work, to wherever there has been sufficient rainfall to enable crops to grow. This chapter is very different to the previous chapters, both visually and emotionally: a show of connection and strength in the face of adversity, that when all else is lost you still have each other. The stacks of boxes that the families sit and stand together on aim skyward - a verticality implying more sense of strength or defiance - and provide pedestals for those that in our society are typically unseen and unheard.

The Day May Break is the first part of a global series portraying both people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. The series was shot in different locations around the world – countries that are the least polluting but the most climate vulnerable. The first two chapters were photographed in Kenya, Zimbabwe (2020) and Bolivia (2022), while SINK and RISE, dedicated exclusively to humans, was shot in Fiji. Photographed underwater, the local people in these photographs are representatives of the many people whose homes, land and livelihoods will be lost in the coming decades as the sea level rises.But despite their losses, the subjects – both people and animals – have nevertheless survived; and thus the series also offers hope and a possibility for the future.