Multimedia

One Way Trip

Living on the frontlines of the climate change

2022 - present

Somalia’s climate is becoming hotter, drier, and more extreme than ever before. Unpredictable weather and rising temperatures, coupled with erratic floods followed by long periods of drought, are permanently changing how communities in the Horn of Africa have lived for thousands of years.

Unable to live from the land their families inhabited for generations, climate migrants are forced to move to urban centres to start over, leaving behind everything they once knew. Their lifestyle changes, their traditions slowly disappear, and they get trapped in a life they can´t recognize or escape.

In this context, the photographer wonders what it means for those living on the frontlines of the climate emergency to abandon their traditional lifestyle and seek refuge in an unfamiliar environment.

Through a series of testimonies and images, the project aims to document how their individual and community identities are shaped after migrating, what the concept of home means to them and what they envision for the future.