Reefs of Hope - Bab El Mandeb Strait, Djibouti

• Photographer
  Lukasz Larsson Warzecha + Ulrika Larsson
• Agency / Studio
  Lwimages
• Photo Date
  2023-11-17

According to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2023 was the planet's hottest year on record and likely the warmest in the last 100,000 years, as reported by Reuters. In the Seven Brothers archipelago, a small chain of islands between Djibouti and Yemen, the Transnational Red Sea Center's mission in November 2023 aimed to characterise the state of the reefs at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, their capacity to adapt to global warming, and their level of anthropogenic pollution.

Born in communist Poland at 342 ppm in 1983, I spent half my life in the United Kingdom. I now live with my wife, Ulrika Larsson, also a photographer on Sweden's west coast. I have worked as a professional photographer for the last 15 years. During my career, I have shot a wide variety of assignments for commercial and editorial clients worldwide. I have taken cameras to every environment on the planet. I have been working as a photojournalist since 2021, focusing on reporting about climate science. My work centers around climate change and highlights the research conducted by scientists.