sandra singh // photography
sandra singh // photography

Source to Sea is a work-in-progress 3 part exploration on the human impact on the oceans.

The top three threats to the oceans — overfishing, climate change, and (plastic) pollution—all have one thing in common: they’re driven by human activity. But that also means we have the power to change things.

We are currently experiencing an unprecedented backward roll in climate protection. From Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement to the new conservative German government, the focus on limiting global warming is increasingly diminishing, giving way to supposed economic interests - and completely ignoring the fact that a lack of climate protection will have enormous economic consequences.

The sea will be particularly hit hard  - as well as humans, because the sea, and therefore water, is crucial to our survival. Rising sea levels, shifting national borders, refugee movements, the loss of Co2 storage and biodiversity will have enormous consequences for us all.

When state and economic actors fail, civil society actors often take the helm - they intervene, often on a voluntary basis, where there is a lack of government control and indifference. In the area of climate protection, this often goes hand in hand with considerable personal risks.

Source to Sea is a work-in-progress 3 part exploration on the human impact on the oceans.

The top three threats to the oceans — overfishing, climate change, and (plastic) pollution—all have one thing in common: they’re driven by human activity. But that also means we have the power to change things.

We are currently experiencing an unprecedented backward roll in climate protection. From Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement to the new conservative German government, the focus on limiting global warming is increasingly diminishing, giving way to supposed economic interests - and completely ignoring the fact that a lack of climate protection will have enormous economic consequences.

The sea will be particularly hit hard  - as well as humans, because the sea, and therefore water, is crucial to our survival. Rising sea levels, shifting national borders, refugee movements, the loss of Co2 storage and biodiversity will have enormous consequences for us all.

When state and economic actors fail, civil society actors often take the helm - they intervene, often on a voluntary basis, where there is a lack of government control and indifference. In the area of climate protection, this often goes hand in hand with considerable personal risks.