2100 – a confrontation with reality
Numerous studies predict a rise in sea levels as a result of global warming and the melting of the polar ice caps. By the year 2100, the oceans are expected to rise between one and five meters.
On our photojournalistic journey along the North and Baltic Sea coasts, from Denmark to the Netherlands, we visited Rostock, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and many other places. The people we met there would lose everything if these sea level rise projections were to come true: their homeland, their existence, and their houses.
Using a ladder whose top rung is positioned four meters above the current sea level, the rise in sea level is made visible. This somewhat absurd placement of the ladder in the landscape gives the abstract concept of rising seas a disturbingly tangible face.