By Celsias team
The effects of climate change will be the subject of a special photographic symposium to be held in conjunction with World Environment Day.
The Auckland Festival of Photography kicks off its Talking Culture series this Saturday by showcasing Climate Change and Environmental Photography.
Four photographers at the forefront of documenting environment and climate change issues will show and discuss their work during the free, one-day-only, limited seating event to be held at the Aotea Centre.
Key note speaker will be Massey University’s Professor Anne Noble who will be share work from her WHITEOUT and ANTARTICA projects undertaken during a seven week sojourn to the polar ice plateau last year.
Bringing his work to New Zealand for the first time will be Melbourne-based award winning documentary photographer and environmental scientist Rodney Dekker. With a passion for capturing moments that communicate a social message, Dekker has extensively photographed the effects of drought, floods and bushfires in Australia.
Auckland photographer Jocelyn Carlin specialises in ‘socially anthropologic’ images and will discuss her images from Kiribati and Tuvalu, the latter a nine-island Pacific archipelago experiencing rising water levels due to climate change.
Fellow AucklanderPeter Evansbrings a socio-political approach to his work, most recently photographing sites around New Zealand after writing the essay ‘Manipulated by the human hand’ at Elam.
Two international exhibitions - One Planet, One Chance by Magnum in Motion and Stumps of Silence by Japanese artist Masaki Hirano – will be also on display at the symposium.
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Climate Change and Environmental Photography Symposium
Goodman Fielder Room, Aotea Centre, Greys Ave, Auckland
10.30am -4pm, Saturday 5 June 2010
