THE HANGING VILLAGE

Kalabogi, a remote coastal settlement in southern Bangladesh, is slowly disappearing under water due to its proximity to the Bay of Bengal, highly vulnerable to climate catastrophe. 

Since the 1990s, the small island-like village – grappled by frequent floods, high tides and river erosion – is battling with a wide range of problems, among which human displacement and economic hardship are the most severe. 

Women manage menstrual hygiene above open water; families collect rainwater to survive dry months. 

Natural calamities have made the Kalabogi people adapt to extreme weather events, most of them, while trapped in a cycle of debt and poverty, now living in their bamboo shacks. Some have relocated permanently to nearby higher ground areas after purchasing land elsewhere.