作品描述

175 Meters
By Gilles Sabrié

175 meters is the level above the sea reached by the Three Gorges Dam reservoir. During the years running up to its completion, big signs appeared featuring a red line and the figure “175M”. Below this line everything was to be flooded, people had to move, villages and cities were to be destroyed and rebuilt. Rarely in human history has a landscape been remodeled on such a scale, affecting so many people.
This photo essay shot along the 500 kilometers of the reservoir banks, from Chongqing to the Three Gorges Dam, aims at capturing how human beings dealt with an ever-changing landscape, the perspective of resettlement, an unknown future. Their lives altered as deeply as the environment. No control. No escape possible. No resistance allowed. The landscape becomes a cemetery of deeply buried emotions, and soon will give birth to a new world. During the labor, we are left to wait, watch, contribute, celebrate or just go. Above 175 meters.

This photo work is born out of the necessity to record these unique moments, before the water rises, forever washing away the memories.



175米
Gilles Sabrié

175米，是由三峡水库达到了海平面以上的高度。在多年运行到完成，大的迹象出现一个红色的线和特色的数字“175米”。这条线之下一切都被水淹没，人们不得不撤离，村庄和城市都被破坏和重建。在人类历史上很少有这样的规模已改造的景观，影响这么多人。
这沿着库岸500公里拍摄的照片文章从重庆到三峡大坝，在捕捉人类如何与不断变化的环境，安置问题，一个未知的未来。他们的生活在环境中深深地改变。一个未知的世界正向当地居民展开，不久将诞生一个新的世界。一边劳动，一边等待，一边观望，一边受益，一边庆祝或者仅仅只是离开。
175米，这组照片是来以记录了水淹没这个城市之前的独特的时刻，永远的将被洗去的记忆。