Rising Tide
Visualizing the Human Costs of the Climate Crisis
Through May 1, 2022
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Rising sea levels affect us all. In Rising Tide: Visualizing the Human Costs of the Climate Crisis, Dutch documentary photographer Kadir van Lohuizen illustrates the dramatic consequences of climate change across the world through photographs, video, drone images, and sound. Experience the effects of rising sea levels in Greenland, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, Fiji, Amsterdam, Panama, Miami, and our own neighborhoods here in New York City.
This exhibition also marks the U.S. launch of van Lohuizen's new book, After Us The Deluge: The Human Consequences of Rising Sea Levels. Learn more about the book and purchase a copy here.
Kadir van Lohuizen
[New York from the marshes around the Hackensack River in New Jersey]
2018
© Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
During king tide, the highest predicted tide of the year, in Miami Beach the water comes up over a poorly maintained seawall and through the drainage system into the street. But even well-built seawalls cannot prevent another source of flooding: water seeping through the porous limestone on which the city is built.
Kadir van Lohuizen
[Miami, Florida]
2014
© Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
A mother and her daughter in their former village of Bainpara. Some houses remain but most were swallowed by Cyclone Alia in May 2009. After the water receded, it never returned to its old levels. In the district of Dakop, 60,000 people are still displaced, nearly the entire population.
Kadir van Lohuizen
[Bainpara, Bangladesh]
2011
© Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
Kadir van Lohuizen
[Pelican Island, between the barrier islands of Fire Island and Smith Point]
© Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
Norberto and Olga Hernandez live on Sucunguadup, one of 36 inhabited islands in Guna Yala. Rising water means the Gunas will need move to the mainland. Evacuation, scheduled to begin in 2012, has not yet started.
Kadir van Lohuizen
[Guna Yala, Panama]
2011
© Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
On January 8, 2019, the Netherlands was struck by a heavy storm coupled with a spring tide. The island of Terschelling was hit hard and the quays and harbor of West Terschelling flooded. While this has happened before, such events are starting to take place much more frequently. Western Terschelling is not protected and future sea level rise will endanger the low-lying areas.
Kadir van Lohuizen
[Terschelling, Netherlands]
2019
© Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
With houses built right on the coastline at Breezy Point, the Rockaways were hit hard by Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and are still vulnerable nine years later.
Kadir van Lohuizen
[Breezy Point, Rockaway, New York]
2018
© Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
Children play on the beach where sandbags have been placed to try hold back the ocean at Temaiku, a vulnerable village on South Tarawa. In February, waves washed away this bulwark and rolled inland, leaving behind flooded homes, salty soil, and tainted wells. Temaiku is one of the most vulnerable areas on Tarawa. At high tide, the waves erode the shore line.
Kadir van Lohuizen
[Temaiku, Tarawa, Kiribati]
2012
© Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
Supporters
Rising Tide is made possible in part by Suellyn and Ted Scull, Elizabeth R. Miller and James G. Dinan, the Mondriaan Fund, the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, Gurudatta and Margaret Nadkarni, Polly and Newton P.S. Merrill, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP, and the Netherland-America Foundation.
Partners
This presentation is based on the exhibition of the same title that opened in October 2019 at Het Scheepvaartmuseum, the Dutch National Maritime Museum.
This exhibition is a collaboration between the Museum of the City of New York, The National Maritime Museum in the Netherlands, and NOOR.
Rising Tide is co-presented by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Special thanks to The Climate Museum; the New York City Mayor’s Office of Resiliency; the New York City Mayor’s Office of Sustainability; and Kevin Hsu, the Centre for Liveable Cities.
All photographs and videos courtesy of Kadir van Lohuizen. © Kadir van Lohuizen/NOOR
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