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At first glance, the photos in Giulia Piermartiri and Edoardo Delille’s new book seem playful.
A giant clownfish appears to swim through a bedroom, past a girl from the Maldives. A ski instructor from Mont Blanc, Italy, seems to glide across a field of flowers. And a man from California looks like he’s pushing a lawn mower across barren, cracked earth.
Piermartiri: “Our pictures are very strange, are very colorful.”
Delille: “And then you understand that behind the colorful and funny picture, there’s a tragedy.”
In their book, “Atlas of the New World,” Piermartiri and Delille explore how vulnerable parts of the world could be altered by climate change.
In each place, the pair photographed residents doing everyday activities and used a unique process to create the dreamy effect without AI or digital editing.
First, they loaded a special 35-millimeter slide projector with stock images of what each place might be like in the future.
Then they projected those images onto the scene they were photographing.
Delille: “So we have a strange blend of future and present in the same picture.”
… which creates an eerie portrait of a world undergoing rapid change.
Reporting credit: ChavoBart Digital Media
