Sinking Cities, Jakarta12

Since 2015 Cynthia Boll regularly travels to Jakarta to record the consequences of subsidence in photographs, film and text. This city sinks at a rapid rate, up to 25 centimetres per year, and in twenty years' time it will be permanently flooded for a third. Cynthia has seen how her people, a female entrepreneur, a schoolgirl, a fisherman and a bicycle-tourist guide have now raised their house a metre; how their valuable possessions have been damaged by Banjir! (flooding). She has experienced what it is like to wade your armpits through polluted water, while the rats are swimming around you. How is life with this reality of floods and valleys of the bottom? That is what the series is about. Jakarta is not unique. Many cities are threatened by this unknown by the subsidence of the soil.