Abstract
This visual essay, analysing a series of photographs curated by Indian photographer K.R. Sunil, explores how climate change leads to human precarity, triggering feelings of economic, psychological, and cultural displacement akin to a sense of homelessness. The series titled ‘Home’ strings the photographs, taken from the shorelines of the south Indian state Kerala, of houses on the seashore which are destroyed by the rage of the waters. These black and white photographs made their entry into the art exhibition titled Lokame Tharavadu (the world is a single home) curated by Bose Krishnamachari in 2021 for The Kochi Biennale Foundation in collaboration with the Government of Kerala and sparked discussions on the visible aftermaths of climate change. This essay attempts to analyse how photographing precarity transacts an eco-anxiety (Clayton, S., C. M. Manning, K. Krygsman, and M. Speiser. 2017. Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Impacts, Implications, and Guidance. Washington, DC: APA & EcoAmerica) and solastagia (Albrecht, G. 2005. “ ‘Solastalgia': a new concept in health and identity”. PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature 3, 44–59.) even though one may not be directly linked to the eco-dystopian (Nayar, P. K. 2019. Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture. 1st ed. Routledge) reality of homelessness that is captured in the photographs.
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