Masquerader Caneisha Edwards from Tribal Carnival Mas Band poses for the camera as she awaits her time on stage at the Toronto Caribbean Carnival King & Queen Showcase at Toronto's Lamport Stadium on Thursday, August 03, 2023 / Published in The Globe And Mail.

The increase of houseboat tourism in the backwaters of Vembanad Lake in Alleppey, Kerala, has increased pollution from sewage dumping and oil leakages. This has ultimately impacted the lives of locals who depend on the waterways in many ways, from contaminated water causing illness and affecting paddy fields (2015).

Indigenous Farmer, Isaac Crosby at Crosby Gitigaan, Malvern Farm in Scarborough / Published in The Narwhal 2024

The Mettur Dam has been a source of water conflict between the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over disputes on the Kaveri River. Dams constructed across the Cauvery Basin leave the Mettur Dam dry during specific periods of the year when the water is most needed by farmers and the general public (2015).

A caretaker at the Theppakadu Elephant camp feeds a trained elephant. Made famous by the 2022 Oscar-winning Indian documentary film “The Elephant Whisperers,” Theppakadu is India’s largest elephant camp, which was developed to reduce human-animal conflict in Tamil Nadu (2015).

Apartheid walls around the city of Bethlehem divide the occupied Palestinian West Bank. In other parts of the region, the walls have impacted Palestinian farmers, cutting them off from water and making it harder to rely on the land (2019).

Smog covering the evening Mumbai skyline is a common appearance, with air pollution violations being attributed to industries that are spread across the different parts of the state of Maharashtra. (2015).

A pilgrim bathes in the Qasr Al-Yahud Baptism Site in Jericho, West Bank, Palestine, which sits along the Jordan River and border. Parts of the lower Jordan River have been polluted by raw sewage and contaminated agricultural runoff from neighbouring communities (2019).

Local fishers in Kerala use the traditional Chinese fishing net historically introduced in Kochin by Chinese explorers. This centuries-old fishing tradition has been fading along the Indian shores due to declining fish stock due to climate change and industrial pollution (2015).

People patiently line up outside Sydney town hall as they await the doors open to participate in their Australian citizenship ceremony. Immigrants have played an important role in shaping Australian society but face significant challenges in securing employment and housing (2016).

South Sudanese Filmmaker Ez El Deng reflects on his journey in Melbourne, Australia, after leaving his home in South Sudan to escape the conflict. The South Sudanese community has faced ongoing discrimination and racial profiling by police, heightened by national media stereotyping of “African gangs” (2016).

A protester holds a stop racism now sign across from the central station in Melbourne's central business district. Human rights groups are speaking out against the Australian government's policies on immigration, as 276 asylum seekers, which includes families and children, are set to be deported from Australia to a detention centre in Nauru (2016).

An Indigenous member of the Emberá people guides a dugout canoe through the Chagres National Park in Panama. The Chagres Watershed is home to a dense, biodiverse rainforest with fresh drinking water. It is also a key supplier of water for the nearby Panama Canal (2019).

Singaporean cargo ship Maersk heads towards the Miraflores Locks system in the Panama Canal, making its passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. An average of 40 ships pass through the canal with each vessel requiring 200 million litres of fresh water to move through the canal locks (2019).

People wait for a water taxi to Bocas Del Toro islands. The United Fruit Company built Puerto Almirante in the Bocas Del Toro province of Panama for its banana exports. Despite being a major trading route for commerce, poverty in Panama is visibly divided along urban and rural lines, with the country having the second worst income distribution in Latin America (2013)

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, leaving a destructive path across the island. Nine months after Maria, recovery is slow and still ongoing under the fragile system that collapsed due to economic debt before the Hurricane. (2018)

Years after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, much of the island has still been recovering from the storm. Image shot in the barrio of La Perla nine months after Maria highlights the destruction left behind on homes in old San Juan (2018).

Years after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, much of the island has still been recovering from the storm. An image shot in the neighbourhood of Condado, San Juan as an incoming tropical storm keeps residents on alert (2018).

An early morning view of Cusco city highlights the density of the higher-altitude city in the Peruvian Andes. Farmers in the Cusco region have been impacted by climate change with increased heat and droughts. As a result of reduced crops, many are forced to change from agriculture to livestock (2019).

Dr. Paul Caulford, founder of the Canadian Centre for Refugee & Immigrant Healthcare, takes a phone call as the Global Medic team sets up a field tent during the early onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Scarborough, Ontario (2020)

Ontario's first poet laureate & community leader Randell Adjei shares a spoken word piece at his favourite park in Scarborough, Toronto on July 13, 2019.

Teacher and educator Mel Ayisi shares her experiences growing up in community housing and how it made her someone who gives back to her neighbourhood in Tuxedo Court in Scarborough (2019).

Canadian Hip Hop Pioneer Maestro Fresh Wes shares where he penned his hall of fame song "Let Your Backbone Slide" in Scarborough, Toronto, on September 23, 2019