“Over here and nowadays”: pictures from everyday climate change

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He has lived in Asia for more than twenty years while documenting environmental and human rights issues: the tumultuous development of China, the Japanese tsunami and nuclear crisis, conditions at Kabul’s drug detox and psychiatric hospital, the indigenous people of the Amazon and Andes, the devastation of Malaysia due to oil palm plantations, the “standing girls” or sex workers of Tijuana in Mexico’s Zona Norte, the desertification in China,the cyclone in Burma, etc.
James Whitlow Delano is an internationally awarded American street photographer. Aware of the common thread running through many of the environmental and humanitarian issues reported by his works from around the world, on January 1st 2015, he launched the project Everydayclimatechange. This is a new climate change feed on Instagram and Facebook showing that climate change is real and raising public awareness and engagement.
Now, from July 28th to August 28th 2015, an exhibition in Milan organized by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei presents the project while exposing the works of 25 photographers from all continents. “I would like people to see themselves in those photos and bridge the distance”, Delano says. “As mentioned, climate change is not just happening ‘over there’ it is happening ‘over here’ and everywhere. We are the answer, all of us”. In a conversation with Laura Caciagli, James Whitlow Delano tells us how he started working on this project and why his struggle for the protection of the environment and the rights of “the little people” of the world are strongly intermingled with the issue of climate change.

Read the full interview conducted by Laura Caciagli on Climate Science & Policy, the free digital magazine edited by CMCC.

Pictures by Mattiheu Paley, Bernardo de Niz, Matilde Gattoni, Nina Berman.

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