The Land That Became a Lake
South Sudan's Floodplain: When Water Refuses to Recede
Unity & Jonlei States, 2024
This gallery is a brief selection from a much larger body of work. The remaining images and full narrative are reserved for my forthcoming book. For commissioning or licensing enquiries, please contact me directly.
Relentless floods have transformed Unity and northern Jonglei into a landscape of stranded islands and submerged livelihoods. Three years of back-to-back La Niña rains, dam surges from Uganda, and a flat, bottlenecked river system have turned homes into lagoons and farmland into water fields.
This series documents life where the floodwater never left. Communities now survive on water-lilies, schools have become boat sheds, and reaching a clinic often means wading chest-deep. Rising fuel costs, a collapsed pipeline, and an influx of 600,000 displaced people from Sudan have pushed local systems past breaking point.
With no clear drainage plan and adaptation funds largely undelivered, South Sudan’s floodplain exists in a state of permanent emergency—drenched, dispossessed, and waiting.
Unity & Jonlei States, 2024
This gallery is a brief selection from a much larger body of work. The remaining images and full narrative are reserved for my forthcoming book. For commissioning or licensing enquiries, please contact me directly.
Relentless floods have transformed Unity and northern Jonglei into a landscape of stranded islands and submerged livelihoods. Three years of back-to-back La Niña rains, dam surges from Uganda, and a flat, bottlenecked river system have turned homes into lagoons and farmland into water fields.
This series documents life where the floodwater never left. Communities now survive on water-lilies, schools have become boat sheds, and reaching a clinic often means wading chest-deep. Rising fuel costs, a collapsed pipeline, and an influx of 600,000 displaced people from Sudan have pushed local systems past breaking point.
With no clear drainage plan and adaptation funds largely undelivered, South Sudan’s floodplain exists in a state of permanent emergency—drenched, dispossessed, and waiting.
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