The Echo of Our Voices – Nick Brandt
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THE ECHO OF OUR VOICES is the fourth Chapter of The Day May Break. It was photographed in Jordan, which is considered the second most water-scarce country in the world. The photographs feature refugee families, who fled the war in Syria, now living in Jordan. Living lives of continuous displacement largely due to climate change, they are forced to move their homes up to several times a year in search of agricultural work, moving to wherever there has been sufficient rainfall to enable crops to grow.
The stacks of boxes that the families sit and stand together on aim skyward – a verticality implying more sense of strength or defiance – and provide pedestals for those that in our society are typically unseen and unheard
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The Echo of Our Voices
