Authors: Tamsin Kerr; Nick Tapper; Ilka Nelson & Maurice O’Riordan

Image: Jocelyn Carlin, Untitled (detail), photograph from exhibition Legacy Tuvalu, The Footprint on Funafuti, 2006, digital print from colour negative, 60 x 75cm. Image caption: ‘For families living in the taisala or borrow pits, high tide makes an already severely compromised domestic situation even more challenging as the seawater seeps up through the ground.’ Image courtesy the artist.