Image published in Dein Spiegel – COP 17 in Durban, South Africa
It has been awhile since my last post. I was really busy in December at the UNFCCC conference in Durban and since then have been swamped with work, mainly helping supervise the 1000′s of images that will make up this years World Press Photo Contest. Expect more from me in the next month, including updates [...]
On Assignment: Photography of Durban Climate Change Conference.
For the next two weeks I will be on the ground with Project Survival Media in Durban, South Africa at the Conference of Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC. The COP is gathering for the 17 session of yet another attempt to try and prevent the impending climate crisis. In an all too predictable way, acting [...]
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 [...]
COP 14 – United Nations Climate Talks 2008
Photography of the United Nations Climate Talks, Poznan – COP 14 – Images by Robert van Waarden
COP 13 in Bali – UN Climate Change Conference
Photography of United Nations Climate Conference, COP 13, in Bali. – Images by Robert vanWaarden – To License click image.
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 [...]
Announcing Project Survival Media
Imagine on all seven continents, there are young people equipped to globally broadcast pivotal stories on impacts, struggles, and solutions. Imagine that you had one minute to tell negotiators how you wanted them to represent you. What would you say? Announcing PROJECT SURVIVAL MEDIA. The brainchild of Journalist and Activist Shadia Fayne Wood, Project Survival [...]
Photographing the Aerial in Bonn
(Credit: Robert vanWaarden / Spectral Q) The clock is ticking on the climate negotiations. Even whilst the talks are stalling, civil society is coming together in a powerful and impactful way. John Quigley from Spectral Q created this phenomenal aerial image here in Bonn, Germany. An incredible coalition of NGOs came together to create this [...]
