Maldives Independent

The Maldives sits at the front line of the climate crisis in a way that is impossible to overstate.

Safiya is there not as an outsider parachuting in with a camera, but as someone who belongs to these islands, who writes about them in her bi-weekly column Atoll Dispatch for Maldives Independent, and who has made it her life's work to document what is at stake when a culture, an ecosystem, and a way of life are all under threat at the same time.

She represents the Maldives for both South Asian Heritage UK and Ocean Culture Life.

She is a member of PhotoAsia's Decoding the Anthropocene cohort, which I love because that name says exactly what this work is doing, decoding what humans have done to this planet, one image at a time.