High Water Mark

Mendel’s project is called the “Drowning World” and currently contains about 50 portraits from eight countries. “Scientists have been predicting that man-made climate change will cause ‘extreme weather events’. This sort of flooding,could become more frequent in the coming years. I believe that it is important to make work that depicts the individuality of the victims of climate change,” he says.

Photographs from the “Drowning Project” have been exhibited across the world since 2010. Mendel mostly uses old Rolleiflex cameras — which have fallen into the water many times,resulting in images with reddish sparks as if the world were being seen from underwater — and also allows himself the liberty of Instagram.

Mendel’s works also include video footage,such as When the Floods Came,shot in Pakistan and Australia,and Living with Floodwaters,which was shot in Bangkok. Mendel intends to make a book and exhibit his entire collection by 2015. “That’s the year that many believe will be the last-chance moment. Without significant agreements about reducing carbon-dioxide emissions,it would soon be too late to save the world,” says Mendel,as he packs his camera bag for Uttarakhand.

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