Show opening at the Confluence Gallery

Posted 31 July 2010 by Benj in Announcements, Exhibits and Presentations, Facing Climate Change

Weathering Change opens Saturday, July 31 at the Confluence Gallery in Twisp, Washington. The show explores how society and the arts adapts to an evolving, changing world. A number of images from our Sámi and wildfire climate change work are on display. These are new prints made with Tyler Boley that were in the Ansel Adams Gallery last fall. As we enter the peak of fire season, we’re particularly excited to bring our wildfire images back to the valley from which they came.

We’ll be giving a talk at the gallery on September 9, at 7 p.m. Weathering Change runs through September 18, 2010.

Benj joins Aurora Select

Posted 1 July 2010 by Benj in Announcements

Benj has joined the multimedia roster at Aurora Select. A division of Aurora Photos, Select represents a high caliber network of editorial and commercial photographers working in still, video and multimedia.

View the multimedia work or the full network listings. For assignments contact David Laidler or Chris Dinon.

Three Degrees launches new website

Posted 31 May 2010 by Benj in Announcements, Facing Climate Change

Darin and I recently launched a new site for Three Degrees, a climate justice project at the University of Washington School of Law. A year ago, founders Jen Marlow and Jeni Krencicki Barcelos put together a conference under the same name that brought together a diverse collection of corporate CEOs, World Bank consultants, former heads of state, legal scholars, relief workers and Native peoples to examine how legal institutions are responding to the human rights component of climate change. (Sara and I curated an exhibit of GHG photographers for the event.)

Jen and Jeni recently graduated and will now work full time on Three Degrees at the UW School of Law. They needed a new website to showcase their work and reach out to the community they’ve built around the conference. Darin and I designed a new identity, WordPress website, and HTML email template. The photographs on the site are from Facing Climate Change and Peter Essick’s climate change work for National Geographic.

Visit threedegreeswarmer.org.

G4C 2010

Posted 20 May 2010 by Sara in Announcements

Nau has recently launched their second annual Grant for Change, a $10,000 grant designed to support those who are using design as a tool for positive change. Benj and I were awarded Nau’s first Grant for Change last year, and it’s helping us to produce our new multimedia series about climate change in the Pacific Northwest. Nominations are open from May 10 through June 11, with voting open until June 20.

Visit Nau.com to nominate, vote and learn more.

Happy New Year!

Posted 21 January 2010 by Sara in Announcements, Facing Climate Change

Thanks for all of the encouragement and support in 2009. Here’s a list of what you helped us accomplish:

Our work was featured in National Geographic, Photo District News, Nature Conservancy, Mother Jones, Sightline Daily, High Country News and Grist.

We gave presentations at Pacific University, The University of Washington Henry Art Gallery, RE Sources Sustainable Living Center, Stafford Creek and Cedar Creek Corrections Centers, and the Ansel Adams / Mumm Napa Fine Art Gallery.

Our images were exhibited in group shows at the Henry Greg Gallery in NYC, Houston Center for Photography, UW School of Law, The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, and the Ansel Adams / Mumm Napa Fine Art Gallery.

We taught two great workshops for North Cascades Institute: Capturing the Cascades and Will Write for Change.

Benj attended Eddie Adams Barnstorm XXII and created Thrill Riding. He was also recognized as a 2009 Emerging Photographer in Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward competition.

We launched our new Web site bdsjs.com to compliment facingclimatechange.org with more information about our projects and services.

We completed a new multimedia story called Connecting Prisons to Nature, and a three-part multimedia series about the Parks Climate Challenge program.

And finally, we were awarded Nau’s inaugural $10,000 Grant for Change!!!

It was a big year and 2010 promises to be just as good. Over the next twelve months we will use the Grant for Change to collaborate on a series of eight multimedia stories that explore the impacts of global climate change through people who live and work in the Pacific Northwest. Please consider making a gift to Facing Climate Change. We need additional support to both collect and distribute these new stories. All donations are tax-deductible