Water People Stories 1
My water and people stories are my personal story. I was born in a former wetland, strongly modified by humans over 2000 years or more. My life as a scientific researcher was focused on freshwater wetlands, tropical floodplains, and their use by people.
I have been photographing landscapes, water, people, wildlife, plants, forests all my life. I am a biologist, researcher with a PhD in tropical biology and floodplain ecology. I have seen many tropical countries all over the world and always visited the wetlands.
Today, I go back in memory and read my diaries. Every day I wrote what I saw, what I thought, whom I talked to and what I learned. The world is changing and over the decades, I recorded some of this change.
I was born in 1965, and in 1986, as a young biologist, I made my dream come true and went to the Amazon for the first time in my life. I went back there several dozens of times, and I lived there for many years
Today, I am back in Europe where I was born, but I am still closely connected to my friends, colleagues and people who struggle with water all over the world.
Let me take you on this journey through the wetlands and the people I met in almost 6 decades.
This project explores the cultural significance of wetlands and the stories of people and their water.