LIFE UNDERWATER
In late February 2019 the Mississippi Delta began to flood.
Five months later, when I arrived, the flooding had barely gone down and for the people of counties of Sharkey, Warren and Issaquena (amongst others) coexisting with the flood had become part of their daily lives. A part of their lives that no one except for those directly affected by the flood, seemed to care about.
It wasn't until July 30th 2019 that news of the flooding was published in The New York Times, with the headline "Where Floods of 'Biblical Proportions' Drowned Towns and Farms" raising some awareness about a largely overlooked community and their #forgottonbackwaterflood.