An aerial view of the people on a boat between the partially flooded village Vilarinho da Furnas in Campo do Geres, Portugal on August 08, 2022.At the end of 1960, the village had almost 300 inhabitants over 80 houses and with the construction of the dam, they all were paid in order for the Dam project to be concluded. With the Dam construction,the village was flooded but during the last years, due to the consequences of climate change, the rain season has decreased and summer temperatures rose. Portuguese scientists marked 2022 as the worse Portuguese drought in the last 100 years.
Omar Marques is a Portuguese freelance photojournalist from northwest Portugal based in Krakow, Poland.
He works as a stringer for Getty Images, Anadolu Agency and collaborates with magazines on editorial and commercial assignments between Central/Eastern Europe and Balkans.
In addition to providing news coverage around Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans, he works on personal long-term projects. Omar’s photographs have been published in The Times, The New York Times, Stern Magazine, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Paris Match among many others.
