The Watermark series started when Mendel salvaged a waterlogged photo album in a flood zone. His work made up from these collected images are exhibited around the world including pictured above in Kyoto in April 2018. (Photo supplied)

Mendel’s work is increasingly being used in different forms of protest against climate change inertia. At the Landskrona Festival, portraits from his Drowning World series are displayed in water, bringing home the stark reality of our burning planet. Pictured is Anchalee Koyama that Gideon Mendel photographed in the Taweewattana District in Bangkok, Thailand in November 2011. (Photo supplied)

Climate change realities are made real to a visitor to the Landskrona Festival in Sweden in September 2018. Seen here is Mendel’s portrait of JB Singh in Kashmir photographed in floods in October 2014. (Photo supplied)

A man visiting Mendel’s exhibition at WAM (Wits Arts Museum) in Johannesburg in 2017. (Photo supplied)

Above and below: Mendel’s Floodlines series shows the surreal inversion of the reality of everyday life as floods change lives forever. (Photos supplied)

The intersection of art and activism has always been how Mendel has approached his photography. His ongoing work showing the impact of floods were part of an exhibition and awareness campaign against climate change when COP21 Climate Change Conference was held in Paris is December 2015. (Photo: supplied)

Everyday objects altered forever by the floods become both horror and beauty through Mendel’s lens. They’re the pleasing patterns and symmetry, also the testament to the destruction of floods as extreme weather conditions become the norm. (Photo: Gideon Mendel)

(Photo: Gideon Mendel)

Homes and lives all over the world are becoming casualties to climate change. Above is the eerie reflection of a front door to a home in Somerset in the United Kingdom, photographed in September 2017. Below is a home underwater in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France, photographed in February 2018. (Photo: Gideon Mendel)