The polar ice caps and entire forests are disappearing. Rising sea levels are engulfing coastlines and submerged islands. Summer nights are warming twice as fast as days. Heatwaves and droughts have forced thousands of people to migrate to survive. But there is hope, resisting the madness. Alpha Cities is an expression of the conflict that makes it possible. In AlphaCities, there is no longer a defined or familiar city, nor the conflict between development and sustainability. Perhaps photography no longer exists as it did years ago, the way I used to relate to it. In search of this possible city, I compose each landscape from two different frames captured in many places around the world at different times. Even in a two-dimensional form, balance is restored from the very elements that threaten it. What emerges is not just an image, but the imagined. Author: Lucas Lenci.