The Colorado River once stretched over 2,000 kilometers, from the snow-capped slopes of the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California, across the western United States and Mexico.
But the river in the desert of Sonora has been drying up since the 80s and no longer reaches the delta, because extensive agriculture and diversion of water to metropolitan areas such as Phoenix led to changes in the course of the river.
Today over 44 million people depend on the water of the Colorado, but less and less snowfall in the Rocky Mountains, due to the climate crisis, intensifies the struggle for water
Jonas Kakó is currently studying photojournalism & documentary photography in Hannover, Germany. Since 2017 he is working for a local newspaper in northern Germany.
His work has been published by National Geographic, Huck Magazine, Vice, De Volkskrant among others.
Awards 1992 | Born in Kappeln, Germany
2012 | Abitur at Bernstorff-Gymnasium Satrup
since 2013 | studying Photojournalism & Documentary Photography at HS Hannover
since 2017 | Photojournalist for Weser-Kurier Bremen
2021 | Shortlist Felix Schoeller Award,
2nd Place Bar Tur Award, Student Category Climate
