Nora Bibel

Uncertain Homelands

The book and exhibition project examines the effects of climate change worldwide, focusing on Indonesia, Namibia, and Germany as examples. Drone footage of almost abstract-looking landscapes, intimate portraits of people directly affected by anthropogenic climate change, and personal interviews interweave to form a multi-layered narrative.
The uncertainty resides in the question of how climate change will alter our lives. The work subtly unravels the complexity of this question and shows how closely individual biographies, global water systems, and climate policy are intertwined, how they influence each other, and how everything is part of a cycle.

Nora Bibel lives in Berlin and studied photography in Bielefeld, Melbourne, and Berlin. She has realized numerous projects at home and abroad and is represented in exhibitions nationally and internationally. Since 2015, she has been a professor of photography at Media University Berlin. She is a member of laif, Freelens, and the DGPh. In her artistic work, she deals with current issues, social developments, and social structures of coexistence from an anthropological perspective. Uncertain Homelands (2024), her third publication, received silver at the German Photo Book Award.

The photograph shows a scene from Indonesia. A man is sitting on a bench in a room that is open at the front. The street in front of him is flooded.
© Nora Bibel
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