Lezing Anush Babajanyan - Winnaar WPP 2023 Langetermijnprojecten
Battered Waters, Water Mismanagement in Central Asia
The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s left the countries of Central Asia struggling with environmental issues and a lack of coordination around the water they shared. In urgency to address the region's water crisis and visualize water management problems, I traveled to four countries in Central Asia, where upstream Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan control the flow of this region's two major rivers into Uzbekistan and water-thirsty Kazakhstan. The 67 million people living in the landlocked area of Central Asia, which is about the size of Europe, depend on its rivers and glaciers for the precious resource of water. At the same time, the changing climate increases the challenges facing all four nations. This project tells the narrative of the environmental problems in this often-overlooked region, through its people and nature, in consequences of climate change already happening.
Bio: Anush Babajanyan is a photographer whose work focuses on social narratives and personal stories. She is a member of VII Photo and is a National Geographic Explorer. Babajanyan has photographed in Nagorno-Karabakh for over six years, compiling the photography in her book ‘A Troubled Home’. Alongside working in the South Caucasus region, Babajanyan photographs in Central Asia, where she has been working on environmental stories. Her photography has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Foreign Policy Magazine, and other international publications.
Met dit combinatieticket kunt u de tentoonstelling bezoeken (deuren open vanaf 19.00 uur) en de lezing bijwonen (vanaf 20.00 uur tot circa 21.30 uur). De lezing is Engelstalig. De avond is alleen toegankelijk voor degenen die een combinatieticket hebben. Een voordeel is dat het aantal bezoekers in de avond beperkt is en daarmee de gelegenheid biedt om in alle rust de tentoonstelling te bezoeken.