Photography

Chris Jordan, Intolerable Beauty

Exploring around our country's shipping ports and industrial yards, where the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed to view like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon, Jordan finds evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse in progress. Jordan is appalled by these scenes, and yet also drawn into them with awe and fascination. The immense scale of our consumption can appear desolate, macabre, oddly comical and ironic, and even darkly beautiful; for Jordan its consistent feature is a staggering complexity.

http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/intolerable/#cellphones2

Robert Van Waarden

Robert van Waarden is a Dutch-Canadian photographer and storyteller. He grew up in Canada exploring the mountains, the coasts and anywhere he could get ‘out’. After working in a commercial photography studio in Montreal he set out on his own and moved to the Netherlands. Attending the UN Climate Negotiations in ’07 led him to turn his lens on climate change. He is known for his work on climate change and travel photography and it has led him around the world.

http://vanwaardenphoto.com/

Climate Oxide

Climate Oxide draws upon experiences from Waarden's and fellow artist Shiva Rimal's individual backgrounds to provide a personalised perspective of global climate issues. To create the project, they traveled together to Nepal, throughout the Netherlands, and used Waarden's existing images from Canada. The inaugural exhibition was held at the Kunstkerk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in October 2012.

http://vanwaardenphoto.com/projects/climate-oxide-2

Green Artists

Tying together the scientific and creative worlds in acts of beauty and activism, sculptors, painters, photographers and more have the power to make environmentalism a priority and bring green initiatives to the forefront of cultural conversations.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/15/environmental-art_n_5585288.html