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What is Conservation?
Conservation is the practice and caring for the resources of
culture, language, planet, species so all living things can
benefit from them now and in the future.
“The Power of Photography”
The Power of Photography
Ken Burns, for example, says that he views the photograph as the basic building
block or DNA of his documentary film making. "Pictures," he says, "are often our
closest representation of the reality we're trying to come to terms with."
What is conservation photography?
successes Exploring the Amazon Won Panda Photo story Award, and Photographs were shown in
talked about his work during his the House and Senate, her
speech to other photojournalists, book has raised awareness
promoted the use of the term 'habitat about the value of the
destruction' instead of 'habitat loss' borderlands. Worked on a
campaign to help save Santa
Ana and in 2018, the US
Congress said no funding
could be used to build wall at
the Santa Ana National Wildlife
Refuge
struggles Difficult access, travel, Struggled emotionally when deciding When the Obama
language barriers, whether to take a photo or help an administration began building
unclean food and animal in stress, had to wait months wall, she had hoped our
water, insects, climate for specific photos he wanted to campaign had helped but
made being in the right take, general technical challenges realized that The Borderlands
place at the right time Project would be a lifelong
a struggle endeavor
What is conservation photography to conservation
photographers?
Houston
“Images that are motivated by the things we want to save and inspire with their
beauty, but that don’t advance the complicated and difficult conversations we need
to be having if we’re really serious about moving towards solutions. We need to
explore those complexities and compromises and find what makes us both
different and the same if we’re to eventually understand what needs to be done to
work together to protect what’s left of the planet and improve how we live on it
and with each other.”
What is conservation photography to conservation
photographers?
Gimesy
“It’s about getting people to treat the world more kindly, trying to create
powerful and impactful photo-stories that can be used to support conservation
projects and conservation outcomes. And those outcomes can be quite varied,
they can be changing policy, or they could be raising funds to back research, or
could be getting individuals to change, or not always change, but reinforce or
continue behavior or change behavior.”
What is conservation photography to conservation
photographers?
Schlyer
“For me it’s a way of communicating value and responsibility. We humans are
so very wrapped up in ourselves and our own comforts and joys. But the earth and
its other inhabitants are at the mercy of our ability and inclination to be less self
centered, to look out into a forest and see all the other lives being lived there, and
to see the beauty and value of all of those lives. I hope my work can help us see
and understand the natural world more deeply.”
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