Capturing Climate Change on Camera

Capturing Climate Change on Camera

The Auckland Festival of Photography is kicking off its Talking Culture series by showcasing Climate Change and Environmental Photography on World Environment Day.

Four leading national and international photographers will show and discuss their work on Saturday 5 June at the Aotea Centre during a free one-day-only, limited seating Symposium.

Talking Culture Coordinator, Isabella Sullivan says “the symposium is a first for New Zealand and the Festival that photographers who are at the forefront of documenting environmental and climate change issues, gather together to create dialogue around their work. Each of the four photographers were invited for their different styles and individual regional focus (New Zealand, Australia, South Pacific and Antarctica)”.

Award winning documentary photographer Rodney Dekker (Melbourne, Australia) has extensively photographed the effects of drought, floods and bushfires in Australia and is bringing his work to New Zealand for the first time. An environmental scientist, Dekker has a passion for photographing moments that communicate a social and/or environmental message.

Established artist Jocelyn Carlin (Auckland, NZ) specialises in ‘socially anthropologic’ images and focuses on Pacific stories from Kiribati and Tuvalu, the latter nine-island archipelago experiencing rising water levels due to climate change.

Emerging Peter Evans (Auckland NZ) brings a socio-political approach to his work, lately photographing sites around New Zealand after graduating from Elam where he wrote ‘Manipulated by the human hand’.

Plus key note speaker Massey University Professor Anne Noble, ONZM MFA, (Wellington, NZ) will be sharing elements of her WHITEOUT and ANTARTICA projects undertaken during a seven week sojourn to the polar ice plateau.

In addition two international exhibitions - One Planet, One Chance by Magnum in Motion and Stumps of Silence by Japanese artist Masaki Hirano – will be on display at the symposium.

The annual Auckland Festival of Photography is New Zealand’s largest free public art event and attracts more than 30,000 audience each year. Full details on all 69 exhibitions may be found at www.photographyfestival.co.nz.

Climate Change and Environmental Photography Symposium
Goodman Fielder Room, Aotea Centre, Greys Ave, Auckland
10.30am -4pm, Saturday 5 June 2010

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