The Day May Break Chapter One, Two and Three are part of a global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction.
The people in Chapter one and two have all been badly affected by climate change - some displaced by cyclones that destroyed their homes, others such as farmers displaced and impoverished by years-long severe droughts.
The photographs from Chapter One and Two were taken at sanctuaries/ conservancies.
The animals are almost all long-term rescues, victims of everything from the poaching of their parents, to habitat destruction and poisoning.
These animals can never be released back into the wild. As a result, they are habituated, and so it was safe for human strangers to be close to them, and photographed in the same frame at the same time.
The fog is the unifying visual. We increasingly find ourselves in a kind of limbo, a once-recognizable world now fading from view.
Created by fog machines on location, this often renders the animals almost a dream, or a memory of what the people once experienced in their lives. It is also an echo of the suffocating smoke from the wildfires, driven by climate change, devastating so much of the planet.
However, in spite of their loss, these people and animals are the survivors. And therein lies hope and possibility.
SINK / RISE is the third chapter of The Day May Break, an ongoing global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction.
This third chapter focuses on South Pacific Islanders impacted by rising oceans from climate change.
The local people in these photos, photographed underwater in the ocean off the coast of the Fijian islands, are representatives of the many people whose homes, land and livelihoods will be lost in the coming decades as the water rises.
Everything is shot in-camera underwater.
All of the images from Chapter One, Two and Three were shot in camera and are not composites.
