Photo essays capturing different perspectives on sustainability
Mapping Forests
The Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) is the most scientifically advanced, aircraft-based mapping and data analytics system operating in the civil sector today. First deployed...
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Visualizing Energy
Bringing to light new renewable energy projects is a way of documenting the energy transition in action. I would not have been able to cover the construction of the Luchterduinen...
The Forest City Project
The Forest City Project was an opportunity to explore the Sonian forest and to discover its grandeur. The Sonian forest, originally an oak-rich forest, was turned by the nobility...
Bull Sharks
Humans have always seen sharks as a threat, especially since Steven Spielberg’s 1975 movie base on Peter Benchley’s novel “Jaws” (1974), which depicts sharks as vicious...
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Toxic Fumes
The Kawah Ijen volcano in East Java, Indonesia, has one of the largest sulphur mines in the world and the only mine that is still quarried manually. Hundreds of men from the...
Liquidity
Water is the very foundation of life on Earth; the life source for all that exists and thrives on Planet Earth and yet we treat Her with such disdain: our oceans and waterways are...
On the Red List
Throughout 2014, the international conservation community celebrated the 50th anniversary of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and its significant contribution to guiding...
Abandoned
‘Abandoned’ imagines a Dubai of the near future, abandoned by people and inhabited by previously captive wild animals. The project is concerned with the fragility of prevalent...
Aquaviva
Comprising a series of similar shots of water in motion, AquaViva is all the more remarkable when we consider that nature presents this vibrant energy daily wherever the ocean...
The Magic of Mushrooms
Fungi are part of the natural cycle of life, often associated with decay. However, amongst the many varieties, includingmushrooms and toadstools, they can display a variety of...
Ghana: Waste-Picking In Koforidua
“Bwala five five” is the name given by waste pickers to the main dumpsite of Koforidua, a town of 130,000 inhabitants in eastern Ghana. On a regular working day, about 15...
Viii Giorno
“Art is an attempt to interpret the world,” says Massimiliano Lacertosa. His project VIII Giorno (Eighth Day) is a journey in time, where time is a desert. The cycle of a day,...
Renewables in Action
According the EU’Observ’ER, the different renewable energies – including biomass – represent together an annual turnover of €137 billion and provide over 1 million jobs...
Yemen: The Story of Nothing
Aid agencies and international NGOs warn that almost half of Yemen does not have enough to eat, including about 267.000 children who face severe levels of malnutrition. During the...
The Coal Fires of Jaharia
In Jharia, in the Jharkhand state of eastern India, coal mining and scavenging plays an overwhelming role in the lives of 600,000 inhabitants. Opened in 1896, the Jharia...
In the Light of Darkness
A title reminiscent of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Faulkner’s Light of August, U.S. photojournalist Kate Brooks (b. 1977) takes us to the brutal frontlines of our...
Distant Paradise
Taking as their starting point images that depict the tangible reality of man-made wastelands, Wilmes & Mascaux probe the transience (or the pretension) of a civilization...
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