A SLOW VIOLENCE 
Climate Change Documentary Photography Across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East

​A Slow Violence, examines the interconnected struggles for survival amid climate collapse across physical, social, and environmental spaces. Treating environmental instability as a threat multiplier, the work investigates how climate change manifests through long-term, cumulative harm. Organised not by geography or chronology but as a map of emotional terrain, the project expands how environmental collapse can be understood.​
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This category of harm is rooted in systemic inequality, curtailing the ability of vast populations to exist humanely while a privileged few not only have the power to escape acute harm, but the ill-defined, slow misfortunes that become perceptible in retrospect. Documenting this climate change-induced phenomenon across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, A Slow Violence unearths the covert traumas between catastrophes, making tangible the persistent struggle for survival. 
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This recurring cycle spans generations, forcing vast populations to choose between reactions of desperation and resignation in the face of impenetrable barriers. It manifests as amorphous health crises, reinforced gender roles, high effort coping, enduring economic instability, environmental degradation, and government ineffectiveness. This repeated and intangible form of injury to the social, physical, and environmental body provokes us to expand our definition of harm and consider the brutality of existence in obscurity. 
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This work is ongoing.