passionate visual spokesperson concerning climate change-
global temperatures threaten the Antarctic ice to melt-
in the last sixty years, the poles have warmed up to more than twice the rate of the rest of the world, while the Antarctica Peninsula has warmed by up to five times the global average-
-the poles hold thirty percent of the world’s water, and Antarctica, 90 percent of its fresh water -
melting ice is projected to raise ocean levels as much as twenty feet within as little as a century, threatening to displace up to 80% of the world's population-
Within as little as 80 years, 35% of the world’s species will disappear -
Polar Bears will be extinct in the North, and many Penguins species willdisappear in the South
American photographer (1944-) who has portrayed Greenland in particular
-”For over twenty years I have made the long journey from New York to Greenland to photograph the giant icebergs that calve off the glacier inIlulissat, a small town on the northwest coast that faces Disco Bay, and beyond, the Labrador Sea. My first trip to the Arctic was in 1986. Four journeys later, in 2007, my journeys came to a melancholy end when the giant glacier had become so diminished in size that icebergs, such as I had known them, became almost impossible to find.”
“Nature transformed through industry is a predominant theme in my work. I set course to intersect with a contemporary view of the great ages of man; from stone, to minerals, oil, transportation, silicon, and so on. To make these ideas visible I search for subjects that are rich in detail and scale yet open in their meaning. Recycling yards, mine tailings, quarries and refineries are all places that are outside of our normal experience, yet we partake of their output on a daily basis.”
BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill which flowed unabated for three months in 2010-
largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry-
spill stemmed from a sea-floor oil gusher that resulted from the April 20,2010, explosion of Deepwater Horizon, which drilled on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect-
explosion killed 11 men working on the platform and injured 17 others-
on July 15, 2010, the leak was stopped by capping the gushing wellhead after it had released about 4.9 million barrels of crude oil-
an estimated 53,000 barrels per day escaped from the well just before it was scrapped.-
On September 19, 2010, the relief well process was successfully completed-
In August 2011, oil and oil sheen covering several square miles of water were reported surfacing not far from BP’s Macondo well-
spill caused extensive damage to marine and wildlife habitats and to the Gulf's fishing and tourism industries-
Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU), which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field .
American photographer (born 1957) whose work takes a look at the profound cost of oil exploitation in West Africa-
work traces the fifty-year impact of Nigeria’s relationship to oil interests and the resulting environmental degradation and community conflicts that have plagued the region-
image of Old Bonny Town on Bonnie Island, where palm oil trade previously thrived- now the town is in poverty while the oil and gas companies continue to grow.
- “It has long been my conviction that rooms are both metaphors and catalysts for states of being, and are thus an insight into the soul of their occupants. We may take a portrait of an individual, and indeed feel many emotions and imagine their personalities or histories in detail, but I believe that by photographing the interior of anabode we know much more about one’s actual personality and personal values. The interior spaces that I photographed in New Orleans were still moist from the receding flood – and indeed the stench of organic rot, the sagging carpets, and waterlogged floorboards made photographing difficult –but it was nevertheless important to me to record for posterity a panorama of mementos of interrupted lives. It is also important to note that the overwhelming majority of these interiors’ occupants are still alive today, living a different life somewhere else. Together with the exteriors, in which I attempted to make visual sense of the forces of chaos that threw houses about as if they were made of cardboard, these photographic records are offered as a kind of visual last rites for life trajectories that are no more.
‘ What triggered the mask series was that I was looking for postcards thatrepresented different metaphors for anteriority within the face, much as I hadused railway photographs to cut into the interior space of the film still’ BenLuke. Art World Issue 2.- 
for this series Stezaker puts a postcard over a film still therefore obliteratingmuch of the underlying image-
the way the postcards are placed lends a particular aesthetic to the work.
Richard Prince
He also uses strategies of blurring cropping and enlarging so that the image becamein some way intensified. Which i found interesting...
growing up in a suburb of Boston used to go into Cambridge at the weekendswhere he discovered ‘personality posters’ large black and white posters of cultural icons that were marketed to college students and was fascinated how‘they seemed to offer a ready made identity to the young person presumed tobe in search of one. So he put up pictures of Jackson Pollock and Franz Klinenot their paintings but portrait photographs of them.
cowboy is an archetype-
It is an advertisement something that would be just thrown away-
It is a myth and he is re-contextualizing the myth of the cowboy but his pictureis photographic copy of the advertisement which was or originally a copy of the photograph-
reusing of the image and the rexontexualising of it become important in termsof myth making.
Yet again, although i found these presentations interesting, i thought the information given, did not really help towards my theme of fashion.
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