Chantel Comardelle
and her family sit for
a portrait in her grand-
parents’ home on Isle
de Jean Charles. Their
ancestors arrived here
in the 1820s, but now
the rising Gulf of Mex-
ico is swallowing the
island. Chantel (seated
at table) helps resi-
dents resettle on the
mainland. Their feelings
are difficult to explain,
she says. “I can’t just say,
you know, ‘the pain of
losing a loved one.’ This
sort of losing a land and
the things that are sur-
rounded by the land is
so different than that.”
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