Impacting Indigenous Culture – The Tar Sands of Northern Alberta
Every extractive industry deeply affects the relationship between people on the land and their newly manufactured landscape. The incredibly rapid development of the tar sands in Northern Alberta is having a profound affect on the culture, lifestyle and health of the First Nations. Conversely, communities have gained employment, and access to modern health care and [...]
16 Feet at FLEX Mussels in New York
I come from Prince Edward Island, a tiny island on the East Coast of Canada. I have been lucky to live all over Canada and now base myself in the Netherlands, but, I am still proud to call myself an Islander. Thus, I was very excited when the architect for a new New York restaurant [...]
Climate Faces – Photography Exhibit at the United Nations
UPDATED IMAGE BELOW Tomorrow, July 14, the exhibit, Climate Faces – Changing Earth, Changing Lives opens at the United Nations in New York. Featured are my photographs from the 2008 Cape Farewell Voyage. This exhibit documents young climate activists exploring the impacts of climate change on the Arctic and how they learned to communicate the [...]
Images Published in National Geographic Traveler
My first travel photographs in National Geographic Traveler have been published! The June edition of the Netherlands travel magazine includes not one, but two articles illustrated with my images. One article visually highlights the wonderful diversity in Oman, where ancient cultures are clashing with modern, oil driven world. The other is a photo essay about [...]
Two photographs of Monument Valley, which is the best?
I want your opinion! I was recently in Monument Valley in Arizona and I created these two drastically different images of the landscape with the mittens. Photographed only 50m apart, these two images raise several questions about composition, viewer opinion and human impact on our environment. I want to know which image you prefer. Image [...]
Canadian Geographic – A Canadian scientist in Norway
Photography in the most recent Canadian Geographic includes a feature story on the Canadian student, Robert Way and the Cryosphere project in the mountains of Norway. While photographing this assignment, I was blown away by not only the winds, but also the consistent rainbows that illuminated the Norwegian landscape. The Cryopshere project allows Canadian students [...]
Photography – Best of from COP 15
Gallery of the ‘Best of’ images from COP 15 in Copenhagen. Images ©Robert vanWaarden
Youth Climate Photographer Shows at Barcelona Negotiations
Cross Posted from Itsgettinghotinhere If you are a youth climate activist, if you have been to a Powershift conference, and/or if you read this blog, you have seen some of these amazing images that are on display, right now, in front of delegates at the Barcelona intercessional meetings –only one month before Copenhagen. I wanted [...]
Photographs of the Barcelona Climate Talks – UNFCCC Negotiations
Photographing live from the Barcelona Climate Talks…… For the collection of photographs from the United Nations Climate Change Talks in Barcelona, Click I am here in Barcelona for two reasons: An exhibit of my images of youth action around the world for climate change is displayed on the wall here at the center. One of [...]
International League of Conservation Photographers – Emerging Photographer
The International League of Conservation Photographers is an incredible organization of the top environmental and conservation photographers in the world. Its’ ranks include National Geographic photographers Paul Nicklen and Michael ‘Nick’ Nichols, Dutch photographer Frans Lanting, Gary Braasch, etc. etc. The list goes on. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this organization [...]
Cape Farewell in Prince Edward Island – News Release
Cape Farewell Youth Expedition Photography Exhibition at Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island Charlottetown (April 15, 2009) – The Legislative Assembly of Charlottetown is hosting an exhibition of photographs taken during the British Council-organized Cape Farewell Youth Expedition 2008. Last fall Prince Edward Island high school student Sean White joined an international group of students [...]
Cape Farewell visits Regina and Yellowknife
The Cape Farewell Photography Exhibit is heading to Yellowknife and Regina. See excerpts from the press releases below. Yellowknife (March 6, 2009) – The Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories is hosting an exhibition of photographs taken during the British Council-organized Cape Farewell Youth Expedition 2008. Last fall Northwest Territories high school student George Bailey joined [...]
Goose bumps at Power Shift 09
For the last two days I have had a serious case of Goosebumps. Never before have I heard and been a part of so much inspiration. I have been documenting PowerShift in Washington DC. Over 12,000, yes, 12,000 youth, converged on Washington to take part in POWER SHIFT! The largest event ever for youth acting [...]
British Council Arctic Photography Exhibit
The exhibit at the British Council headquarters in London featuring images from the Cape Farewell Youth Expedition was a resounding success. Over 150 people, including politicians, diplomats, climate scientists, climate activists, and interested individuals, showed up to see the images. They were given the opportunity to meet some of the voyagers, the staff members of [...]
Cape Farewell Photography – London Exhibition
This Wednesday, Feb 4th at the British Council head quarters in London a launch of an exhibition of my Arctic photography from British Council Canada’s Cape Farewell Youth Expedition 2008. Last September British Council Canada took 28 high school students on a voyage from Iceland, round the tip of Greenland, to Baffin Island in Canada [...]
World Press Photo – 2009
Every year in January the halls of the World Press Photo in Amsterdam is a hive coming out of hibernation. Fueled by thai and indonesian food and Grolsch beer, an army of photographers and students takes on the monumental task of sorting through the 85,000 images from the year before. The World Press Photo competition [...]
Climate Ninjas in Poznan, Poland
Some fun with the Fired UP! Media Team in Poznan, PolandFired UP! Media – Climate Ninjas from Robert vanWaarden XML Feed Robert vanWaarden
Cape Farewell Photography – Canadian Geographic
Canadian Geographic covered the Cape Farewell Youth Expedition in their most recent magazine. It features three photographs, interviews and a general synopsis of the voyage. Located in the section called Inside Story, check it out. XML Feed Robert vanWaarden
International Youth Climate Movement – Poznan, Poland
The International Youth Climate Movement takes over in Poznan, Poland. International Youth Climate Movement COP 14 XML Feed Robert vanWaarden
Too Little to Late?
I have just wrapped up two intense weeks covering the youth movement at the UN Climate Change Conference, in Poznan, Poland, (see youthclimate.org). These young people are the cream of the crop, beautiful, intelligent, dedicated and emotionally invested in Climate Change. They all seem to ‘get it’, understanding that we are talking about the survival [...]
Ministre Environment de Quebec
The results from a small job for the Quebec Minstry of the Environment. Minstre Line Beauchamp speaking at the UNFCCC in Poznan, Poland. Link Here XML Feed Robert vanWaarden
Live from Poznan
Reporting live from Poznan, Poland. Two Members of the Youth Media Team and Fired UP! Media XML Feed Robert vanWaarden
Poznan
Flying hi in Poznan, Poland. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the annual COP meeting is underway again. An unprecedented amount of youth from all over the world attended the 3rd annual Conference of Youth to prepare for the opening of the conference on monday. There is an energy in the air, [...]
