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Flowing Narratives is an exclusive collaboration with Imon Raza, emerging from the 2026 Godrej Design Lab Fellowship, to explore climate futures through a deeply personal and materially grounded cinematic and photographic practice.
The project centres on two rivers : the Brahmaputra in Assam, India, and the Garonne in southwest France - as living archives of ecological memory, cultural identity, and climate vulnerability. Both rivers are experiencing accelerating transformation... the Brahmaputra through erosion, flooding, and displacement, and the Garonne through drought, heatwaves, and shifting agricultural ecologies.
Rather than documenting these rivers from the outside, we work with the rivers themselves, by using their water and sediments as active agents in the photographic development process. In parallel, we are also exploring the lost identities of "climate objects" - items that once held some significance to communities, but which are fast disappearing due to changing narratives brought upon by climate change.
The rivers become not just subjects, but co-authors of this work, and sing to you their flowing narratives.
Project labelled "Living with Rivers" 2026 and also supported by the Embassy of France in India, under the scope of the Indo-French Year of Innovation 2026.Climate Objets
Climate Objets
These artefacts function as material witnesses to environmental transformation, carrying imprinted data, stories, and histories of ecological loss.
Read critically, these objects transcend their utilitarian origins to become archives of displacement and adaptation—signatures of a changing climate inscribed in material form, documenting communities negotiating survival amid accelerating environmental precarity.
From the Eastern Himalayas and Brahmaputra Valley
From the Eastern Himalayas and Brahmaputra Valley
From Assam, obsolete fishing implements—rendered redundant by the Brahmaputra's shifting morphology and altered flow regimes—register the river's climate-driven volatility.
The hand-beaten pottery, sustained by a dwindling community of women whose riverside settlements are steadily consumed by soil erosion, embodies a craft tradition on the threshold of erasure.
Further north, the thousand-year-old paper-making technique of Arunachal Pradesh's Chug Valley, dependent on the increasingly scarce Indian paper plant, testifies to the fraying link between climate, habitat, and intangible heritage.
From the Garonne - Occitanie Region
From the Garonne - Occitanie Region
Pastel blue is a material witness to transformation in the Garonne Valley, carrying histories of abundance and erasure in its colour. Pressed from woad leaves and rolled into cocagnes, it financed Renaissance Toulouse before vanishing almost entirely. Revived today by efforts such as by Bleu de Lectoure, the craft is precariously returning to the drought-stressed fields of the Gers and Lauragais, but without the economy that once carried it, and against a climate that strains it anew.
Upcoming Exhibitions & Publications
Upcoming Exhibitions & Publications
October 2026 - Assises Nationales du Fleuve, Marseille
October 2026 - International Astronautical Congress, Antalya
December 2026 - Conscious Collective, Mumbai
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