"In 2009, Swiss photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer set out to document the people suffering the first shocks of the climate crisis. They had just returned from China, where rapid, unregulated development has ravaged the natural landscapes. Back home, though, the debate still felt strangely theoretical. In 2009, you still had people who denied climate change, Braschler recalls. People said, This is media hype.'"
"So the couple, working with the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva and supported by Kofi Annan, began The Human Face of Climate Change, a portrait series that showed the people on the frontline of a warming world."
"Sixteen years later, climate change is no longer up for debate; the urgent discussions now revolve around solutions. Braschler and Fischer, too, have shifted their focus. This is going to be one of the central issues for humanity, says Braschler, and we want to make sure that people know that the major effect of climate change will be displacement."
Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer began documenting people experiencing early impacts of the climate crisis in 2009 after witnessing environmental damage in China. They created a portrait series that highlighted frontline communities and later refocused on displacement as a primary consequence of warming. Displaced (2025) is a multi-year photographic project across 12 countries, compiling more than 60 portraits of people forced from homes by drought, floods, desertification, sea-level rise, wildfires and the slow collapse of local ecosystems. The project pairs large headline disasters with quieter, gradual losses such as salinizing marshes and eroding coastlines, emphasizing human stories of loss and estrangement from land.
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