Water is a fifteen-year project, begun with the understanding that water and humanity were moving towards a crisis. We live in a time when 650 million people have no access to safe drinking water; when our rivers, basins and lakes are affected by decades of industry; when rising sea levels are placing Pacific Islanders in the cross hairs of becoming the first climate refugees. The complexity of our relationship with water reflects our greater behavior towards our environment. Only now do we understand our impact on our planet. Too often water has been addressed only in crisis, only in lacking and not as an intertwined topic that stretches between the literal and the interpretive. By spotlighting the ways in which we behave towards our resources, the project sets the stage for viewers to see themselves in a greater global dialogue. This is the future of the work: unifying water as both a physical resource and a conceptual idea.
Mustafah Abdulaziz
Water Stories is the result of a collaboration with the HSBC Water Programme, a partnership between HSBC, Earthwatch, WaterAid and WWF, and presented as part of the festival Photoville, in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Mustafah Abdulaziz, Water Stories
Photoville Festival 2016
September 21 – October 12, 2016
Brooklyn Bridge Park
DUMBO, New York City
