Climate Change and the Syrian Exodus

Commissioned by The Weather Channel, I documented the impact of climate change on the Syrian civil war, focusing on refugees in Jordan and the region’s growing water crisis. Azraq, once a thriving oasis, has become a harsh symbol of what happens when water disappears. The refugees I photographed were displaced by war and by drought, their lives uprooted by a crisis that started long before the first shots were fired. Through my lens, I captured the struggle for survival in a land where resources are vanishing, where farmers burn tires to keep crops alive and dried-up wells stand as monuments to what was lost.