Description
In recent years, climate disasters have caused exponentially more damage to communities through loss of life, property, and compounding economic destruction. As these disasters increase, it is unknown whether affected communities will continue to rebuild with an outlook of uncertainty, or if the worst affected regions of the country will be forgotten. Residents face the prospect of escaping to settle in ‘safer’ areas or stay and try to navigate diminishing federal assistance programs and insurance coverage.
Concept & Production by Tiffany Jones; Design by Camilla Marrese
The Author
Bryan Anselm is a photographer based in New York, covering the long-term effects of climate change on communities throughout the U.S. for more than a decade. He is a contributor to The New York Times, The New Yorker Magazine and TIME Magazine, among others. bryananselm.com
Reviews + Press
“[Anselm] takes us into the teeth of the destruction, forcing us to witness what is actually happening to homes, communities, and real people when hurricanes, floods, and wildfires wreak their increasingly intense havoc. ..it’s clear that we’re intentionally taking a step backward from necessary solutions and that new strategies (and visual languages) will now once again be needed to redirect climate engagement in urgently productive ways. So Anselm’s book arrives at just the right moment – unfortunately we are in need of a bracingly realistic slap in the face, and this photobook delivers it.” – Loring Knoblauch, Collector Daily
“Overlapse brings us Anselm’s powerful message in a book I found impossible to put down. It opens with a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.” He takes us to neighborhoods where family histories are ruined beyond recognition or repair, the natural world now entangled with the built environment, the lives of every living being impacted. The book is printed on uncoated paper with uncut pages which hold discoveries for the viewer within the emergency orange-colored inner-sleeve (a prominent yet subtle design element). Do not look away from the tragedies inflicted on others; instead, bring empathy and strive to gain an understanding of what we can do now to help our ailing planet.” – Mary Virginia Swanson, Author, Educator, Advisor
Collector Daily review by Loring Knoblauch
Special Notes
Featured in ‘Bibliophily’ exhibition at D’Ark Room in Seoul, Korea from 20 March – 7 July 2026
*Favorite Photobooks 2025, Lensculture, Selected by Mary Virginia Swanson
*Selected Photobooks of the Month, February 2026, Photo London Book Club
*Photobookstore Recommended title, November 2025
Book launch in Paris at Polycopies photobook fesival, 12 November 2025
Sound the Sirens is held in the following collections:
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Morton R. Godine Library (Boston, MA)
Princeton University, Firestone Library (NJ, USA)
