PROJECTS: The Hinterland: sertao_01-20151111sertao0419

Passagem, Brazil. Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015.São Francisco River reveals a dry riverbed and a cemetery of fishing boats in the town of Passagem, in Bahia. The drought was so intense that the Sobradinho Reservoir, where the river flows, fell to just 6% capacity in November. The region suffered from nearly six years of drought, forcing fishermen to farm for food on the islands that surfaced from the disappearing waterway. 

Passagem, Brazil. Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015.

São Francisco River reveals a dry riverbed and a cemetery of fishing boats in the town of Passagem, in Bahia. The drought was so intense that the Sobradinho Reservoir, where the river flows, fell to just 6% capacity in November. The region suffered from nearly six years of drought, forcing fishermen to farm for food on the islands that surfaced from the disappearing waterway.