Unyielding Floods is Peter Caton’s ground level chronicle of South Sudan’s years long inundation, photographed from 2020 to 2024. Centring people who live with water, the book pairs photographs with first person testimonies to move beyond disaster cliches. Scenes include classrooms used as temporary shelters, women cultivating rice in floodwater, and families raising homes on floating grass pontoons. 

Peter Caton is a documentary photographer whose work focuses on environmental justice and humanitarian storytelling. Over the past two decades he has photographed communities living through climate driven crises, conflict and inequality across more than thirty countries. His book Unyielding Floods (Dewi Lewis, 2025) chronicles families in South Sudan adapting to years of flooding, pairing photographs with first person testimonies. His work is published and exhibited internationally and is used by NGOs to advocate for human centred responses to the climate emergency. He divides his time between long form projects and assignments worldwide.