Going Away from Here: Who are we willing to Save? is a three-year project capturing the island of Tangier off the coast of Virginia. Tangier Island is a proud crabbing...
Going Away from Here: Who are we willing to Save? is a three-year project capturing the island of Tangier off the coast of Virginia. Tangier Island is a proud crabbing community and predicted to be one of America’s first “climate change refugees.”
The very water that the residents of Tangier depend upon to survive, is swallowing them up an average of nine acres every year. Upon arrival by boat, it is hard to see the island off in the distance because of how low it sits to the water. This deeply religious island has already been split by the Bay’s waters, which now seeps up through the ground below. Tangier is not alone and sadly tells the tale many different low-lying cities in the US and around the world are facing in the next 80 years. By photographing Tangier Island, I hope to inform viewers of the need to take notice now, and to think about the difficult decisions that stand before us—how will we decide who and what is worth saving? And, who are we willing to let wash away into t