Submerged City

‘Submerged City’, a project produced during the British Council's Venice Fellowship program, raises awareness of rising sea levels and their threat to coastal communities around the world, including Venice and the Egyptian Nile Delta. It consists of a series of Polaroid photographs taken of landmarks around the island. These images were then submerged for up to two months in containers filled with water collected from the Nile Delta and the Egyptian Mediterranean, dried, scanned and enlarged. The length of time each Polaroid was kept submerged corresponds to the elevation of the depicted landmark and, by extension, its vulnerability to rising waters. Liberated from the instant and precise nature of conventional photography, the ’decayed’ results of this aleatory process invite us to contemplate the impermanence of the human-built environment and our own relationship with nature.

Each artwork is available as a fine art Giclée print measuring 61 x 62cm and comes in a small limited edition of 5-10 pieces.