"Big Lake" Disappearing
Personal memory by Lorin S.Y.
1970 CE - 2022 CE • Kanymazin, Iraq
Large lake in Kurdistan disappearing over the years. In the late 1900s, it was a giant lake, so big that was region was named 'Big Lake'. Now, it is very small, disappearing.
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022
Image: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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