In this photographic essay, I explore the aesthetics and experiences of displacement among peasants in rural northern Sudan who were flooded out of their homes along the Nile during the 2003–2009 Merowe Dam construction project. The radically changing environment shaped people’s perception of displacement as they attempted to stay and revive life in their homeland on the shores of the expanding reservoir. In this essay, I try to evoke the sensory perceptions and experiences of a world falling apart—its fragmentation, as well as its simultaneous re-formation—by focusing on what I call the “aesthetics of the unfamiliar.”

中文翻译：

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陌生的美学

在这篇摄影文章中，我探讨了 2003 年至 2009 年麦罗维大坝建设项目期间，苏丹北部农村地区被洪水淹没的尼罗河沿岸农民流离失所的美学和经历。急剧变化的环境塑造了人们对流离失所的看法，因为他们试图在不断扩大的水库岸边的家园中停留并恢复生活。在这篇文章中，我试图通过关注我所谓的“不熟悉的美学”来唤起对一个分崩离析的世界的感官感知和体验——它的分裂，以及它的同时重组。