ClimateVisuals

Climate Visuals is the world’s evidence-based and impact-focused climate photography resource. It hosts new research, an image library and global open calls.

All too often, climate change imagery is ineffective at driving change – it may be aesthetically pleasing and illustrative but not emotionally impactful.

Based on international social research, Climate Visuals, a project by Climate Outreach, has had a significant impact in catalysing a new - more diverse and more compelling - visual language for climate change. Major projects include Visualising Climate Change, Oocean Visuals, representing indigenous people in images, and promoting diversity in outdoor photography.

The Climate Visuals evidence base proves that imagery needs to embody people-centred narratives, local impacts and positive solutions, and must resonate with the identity and values of the viewer. We need to diversify who is behind the camera whilst considering the values and ethics of image production.

Since our launch in 2016, we have grown our library through curation, two global open calls, grants, commissions and partnerships. Climate Visuals’ library of impactful climate photography is trusted by over 8000 NGOs, educators, journalists and communicators across the world.Climate Visuals images were prominently displayed at COP27 in Egypt and COP26 in Glasgow, and are widely used by outlets such as the Guardian, NGOs large and small, and educators across the world.

• The Climate Visuals library

Since 2016, their collection has grown to host over 1,400 Creative Commons and Rights Managed images - all content that embodies our evidence-based 7 Climate Visuals principles.

These images are publically available to browse in the Climate Visuals library.

Registered users can browse and access content that is ‘rights ready’ for their profile and needs - searching in combination by keywords, country, theme, collections, date, licence type and source. Users can generate links directly to images for sharing to social media, and, with lightboxes, they can also save, download and collaborate on their image selections.