Delta

A powerful photographic record of the great deltas in southeastern Asia by one of our most acclaimed photojournalists

Schwartz's photographs show the reality of life and death in this impoverished yet immensely resourceful part of the world. Supporting his images are documents, drawn from a wide range of authoritative sources, throwing light on a region of enormous untapped potential.Giver and taker of life; essential element of all existence and untameable destroyer; spiritual expression of purity and contaminated purveyor of affliction; bringer of blessings and of tragedy; agent of social, economic and political discord. Water is all of these things - and abundantly so in the great deltas of South and Southeast Asia, the focus of this troubling but pertinent study.

Daniel Schwartz's photographs show the reality of life - and death - in this impoverished yet immensely resourceful part of the world. Supporting Schwartz's poignant images are documents, drawn from a wide range of authoritative sources, throwing light on a region of enormous untapped potential. Shaking off a long history of isolation, obscurity and conflict, this is an area whose time has finally come. Statements of reality, direct and unadorned, these photographs are a declaration of hope for the deltas.