Heat Index: Stories of Climate and Migration

Tuesday, September 22 | 6:30–8:30 pm

Featuring:

A presentation of Farhana Satu’s portraits of women living on the Bagerhat River in Bangladesh, where rising salinity levels and persistent flooding are damaging women’s health, a process reflected in Satu’s salt-eroded images.

A live visual performance by photographer Zumrad Mirzalieva, whose photographs from along the dried-up Aral Sea in Uzbekistan portray a former port town living in the wake of overextraction, still reverberating with the echoes of a lost sea.

Remarks by Alejandro Martin Rodriguez, fellow in the Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research focuses on the social dimensions of climate change.

To attend this event virtually, register here.

Thursday, September 24 | 6:30–8:30 pm

Featuring:

Reporting from the recent Bhotekoshi flood in Nepal by Uma Bista and Chemi Dorje

Work by Kunga Tashi Lepcha, whose photographs along the Teesta river in Sikkim, northeast India honor the spiritual and ecological knowledge that has sustained his community’s decades-long resistance to the hydroelectric projects devastating their sacred lands.

Remarks by Lindsay Jenkins, Affiliated Scholar with Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration, whose expertise lies in global refugee and migration issues.

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Both in-person events will mark a chance to see Magnum Foundation’s current exhibition, Enduring Ecologies, featuring works that bear witness to four communities around the world transformed by environmental disruption. They were developed in Magnum Foundation’s Photography Expanded: Heat Fellowship, which supports new photographic storytelling about the climate crisis and the inextricable relationship of communities to land. A zine publication featuring all eighteen projects supported by the Heat Fellowship will also be available at the in-person events.

About the organizations:

Magnum Foundation expands creativity and diversity in visual storytelling, activating new audiences and ideas through the innovative use of images. Through grant making, mentorship, and creative collaborations, we partner with socially engaged imagemakers exploring new models for storytelling.

The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) is an umbrella policy & advocacy organization that represents over 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups throughout New York.

This event series is produced with support from the National Partnership for New Americans.

Magnum Foundation’s Heat Fellowship is made possible with the support of the Rosenthal Family Foundation, the Geneviève McMillan-Reba Stewart Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

Magnum Foundation public programs are made possible by the Henry Nias Foundation and our Circle of Friends.