The award-winning Danish photographer and journalist
Jakob Dall exhibits his enormous photo series on people
whose conditions of existence are currently threatened by
climate change. Jakob Dall travels around the world to
places most affected by climate catastrophes, places like
Bangladesh, Uganda, Nepal and Bolivia. His photo
reportage documents how these catastrophes affect people
´s everyday lives. Jakob Dall is a recipient of the EISA
Maestro prize.
His new photos mainly focus on how individuals are
affected by events we often only hear about in a macro
perspective in the media. Through his photos of people
from areas of conflict, disaster and crisis he wish to show
the faces and realities of life in areas that need attention
and help from the international community.
His harrowing pictures of drought and flooding in various
parts of the world are not only documentations of the
impact of climate change on living conditions and daily life
for the people involved, they also help us to see this vast
global problem as a humanitarian one and not purely a
scientific one. He puts faces on the disasters and makes us
realize that next time it might be us.
Exhibition running to December 23 at the Lyngby Library,
Copenhagen
The Climate Change Documentary by Jakob Dall
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- Elena Sommariva
- 06 December 2009