Chatting the Pictures: NYC’s Children of the Smoke
The sight of smoke descending on NYC was otherworldly. The emotional fallout from the Canadian wildfires, especially on children, was also.
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Whirling Fire Storm Photo: The New Unfathomable
Fire photos this ominous come at a premium. But this photo from California captures the new otherworldly state of the climate crisis.
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Global Heating and Fire: California Jumps the Gap
It's not just a bad fire season. These photos both symbolize and demonstrate how California has crossed a critical climate threshold.
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Chatting the Pictures: Viral “Covid Meets California Firestorm” Photo
In our latest video, we discuss how this photo delivers a powerful commentary on COVID-19, and a compounding global climate crisis.
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Chatting the Pictures: Iowa’s Derecho, Another Massively Destructive Climate Event
The photo circulated widely after the derecho in Iowa. In this highlight video, we discuss the contrast between beauty and destruction.
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Wedding Humor in the Age of Apocalypse
I noticed this picture from South Korea has been making the rounds again. It was taken as a (not-such-a-) joke photo at a wedding in Seoul in June 2015. At the time, the catalyst for the photo was the outbreak of the deadly MERS virus. Today, it strikes a...
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The Trump – Greta Thunberg Photo Crossings
Once again, young Greta Thunberg and Donald Trump find their way into the same international meeting photo. As the climate degenerates, we can expect more.
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“Beautiful” Violence in Climate Change Photography
Abstract geometries and pleasing color palettes make it hard to understand the experience of harm.
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Climate Crisis: Are the Animals Mad at Us?
Between the heat and the photography, it’s hard not to process this as a portrait of six scorched and very pissed off water buffalo.
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The Visual Politics of AOC’s Green New Deal Posters
Mindful of the political environment, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal posters are fortified as much to counter anxiety as to elicit optimism.
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Creature from the Fossil Fuel Lagoon
Chavez's photo draws on fantasy and imagination and then combines those qualities with "human industry," in both senses of the term.
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Apocalypse (Then and) Now: Climate Crisis Channels the Bomb
On one level, the poster is just another creative climate change warning. On another, though, it’s a memory jolt to the boomers.
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Salt Chimneys
These Dead Sea formations called "salt chimneys" crystalize around freshwater streams. They appeared with the drop in water levels, but nobody knows why.
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How Climate Change is and isn’t Fueling the U.S. Border Crisis: These Pictures aren’t that Simple
With all the visual attention given to the "caravan," how powerful to see mass migration also depicted by people taking hold of a place.
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Has Climate Change Killed the California Dream?
California is used to the edge. With the multi-year drought and now these firestorms, however, I'm wondering if climate change has tipped the scale.
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Monster Hurricanes and Eco Disaster Photos: The Indecisive Moment
These eco disaster photos allow us to take account of the slow consequences of Harvey and Irma. The fact they defy closure is the whole point.
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Harvey Unprecedented? What About 2 Weeks Ago in Sierra Leone?
Although Harvey's impact seems to be mercifully smaller in ways than recent monster storms overseas, these events call for larger ways to scale them.
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Photography’s Limits in the Age of Trump’s EPA
On the capacities of photography to confront environmental crises. Especially now.
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