Sound the Sirens gathers Bryan Anselm’s photographs of climate-related disasters in the United States and the people living with their consequences. Published by Overlapse Books in 2025, the book approaches catastrophe not as a single spectacular event but as an extended condition: damage remains in landscapes, homes, bodies, and communities after the immediate emergency has passed.

That emphasis on aftermath gives the project its particular gravity. The photographs attend to what disaster leaves behind and to the human presence within those altered environments, placing material destruction alongside the lives shaped by it. The title’s imperative suggests warning, urgency, and a public signal, while the work itself appears measured rather than sensational. Its subject is climate crisis, but its focus is also time—how repeated disasters accumulate, and how their effects continue to structure ordinary experience.

For collectors of contemporary documentary photography, the book is significant as a sustained photographic account rather than a topical compilation. The available descriptions identify it as the culmination of more than ten years of photographic work and as encompassing the long-term effects of multiple climate disasters. That duration matters: it frames the images as an investigation into persistence and adaptation, not merely a record of isolated news events. Anselm’s authorship gives the project a coherent individual perspective, while its subject reaches beyond one place or incident toward a broader national experience.

Sound the Sirens is presented as an English-language hardcover, with ISBN 9781738130030. Its value as a collection book lies in the seriousness of its central question: what does it mean to photograph disaster once the sirens have stopped, and the consequences have become part of daily life?