Guardians of Glaciers Project Details: Ice constitutes the second largest source of freshwater on the planet and 70 percent of theworld’s tropical glaciers are found in Peru. Located in Cusco, the Quelccaya Ice Cap is thelargest tropical glacier in the world, covering an area equivalent to more than 9,000 soccerfields....
Healing Our Waters With Kelp – Indigenous Futurist Solutions for Mother Earth Project Details: The project I’m proposing is two years deep with a group I deeply admire, the Native Conservancy,based in Eyak (Cordova, Alaska), a small fishing town. Our goals are to create beautiful images thatconvey to the world...
Keeping Pukapuka: The Motu of Self-Preservation Project Details: This short documentary and photography project is about the remote community on the island ofPukapuka, a coral atoll and tiny islands in the northern group of the Cook Islands. Today the communityof Pukapuka live within their indigenous, social and environmental structure to...
ROOTED: Sapara Women (Re)Weave their Ancestral Knowledge to Reclaim Land Rights Project Details: Between badlands, seas and forests women emerge as a divine dance, bringing the mud from the bottom of the ocean, becoming the mother, reseeding the land while harvesting tobacco as a medicine, they speak of their bond...
Where Stories Are Told and Wisdom is Remembered Project Detials: In the shelter of the Libulunganan (gathering hut), Robert Cahapon, 29, cheerfully holds up an heirloom variety of eggplant. He’s engaging a captivated audience, demonstrating the meticulous process of seed collection. This particular Sunday marked another gathering for learning under...
Lake Qarun Project Details:After the start of the industrial renaissance in Egypt during the19th century by Muhammad Ali Pasha, the industrial wastes, and municipal effluents have been largely dumped into the Lakes in the Delta area causing environmental degradation and health concerns. Lake Qarun is one of the vulnerable areas,...
Honorable Mention From their project Organic Landscapes Jennifer McKinnon Richman is a visual artist based in Atlanta, GA whose primary medium of expression is photography and digital compositing. Her work explores themes of environmental degradation and the impact of human consumption on natural landscapes. Through visually compelling and thought-provoking compositions,...
Honorable Mention From their project “Index” With Index, I draw upon my past experiences as a field biologist to process grieving around the impending loss we are facing as the result of climate change. These photograms serve as a record for what once was of the flora of a small...
Honorable Mention From their project Chimera of the Post-Anthropocene “Chimera of the Post-Anthropocene” my current series, explores objects that are assembled from nature but not of it. The photographic tableaus are based on specific biomes, envisioning dramatic and unpredictable futures of flora and fungi. These characters are lit and photographed...
Third Place Winner From their project Gain-of-Function These images are from an ongoing project titled Gain-of-Function. The series fuses non-traditional landscape imagery that acts as a backdrop for painted graphs and charts representing data from studies on climate change and its effects on the environment. The landscapes are recognizable, taken...