Rising Waters

With climate change, the swim cap symbolizes in all its absurdity the vain existential struggle of humankind against Nature, tossed around by torrential rains, destructive winds and tsunamis. From childhood to adulthood and up to the very last frontier, from North to South, disapproval and indignation mingle with the vulnerable and ancient swim caps, these unlikely and ineffective accessories facing against the powerful destruction created by the fury of elements. When Nature disappears, flowery swim caps will remain as a memory of the day when flowers still had some fragrance. This photo is part of a series "Rising Waters" which includes 20 portraits.

Fabienne Cresens is a self-taught Belgian photographer. Born in Africa, she has since the age of seventeen ceaselessly strived to expand the field for her art from analog to digital, with what she calls photographic objects that open the way to new experiments, mainly conducted in Brussels.