Author:sgallagher
I was recently interviewed by PDN (Photo District News) about my collaborations with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting with whom I have worked closely with on many of my environmental stories over the past decade. The article discusses how potential applicants can best tailor their applications to increase their chances of receiving grants from the organisation. Read the full article on PDN, via their Digital Edition. Explore some of the stories I have produced with the Pulitzer centre by […]
Last summer (2017) I produced this short film for National Geographic, with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, about the rise in exotic pet ownership in China. It’s a subject that is little covered but is crucial to understand, as the industry plays a significant role in the global trade in wildlife. Lear more about this issue through the above video and accompanying images and text below: Beijing, China – 2017 It is estimated that up to one million people […]
Everyday Extinction is a new Instagram feed that aims to highlight the causes, effects and solutions to the 6th global biodiversity extinction crisis. I founded this feed in late 2017 and am excited to see the feed grow and attention being drawn to this issue in the mainstream media. The latest publication to feature the feed is the UK’s leading national newspaper, The Guardian. If you’d like to learn more about this initiative which involves photographers, scientists and conservationists, please […]
The Pulitzer Center have recently released their latest eBook, ‘Toxic Planet: The Global Health Crisis’. I am please to have contributed to one of the chapters which features my work from India on pollution issues across the north of the country. The eBook is free to download via iTunes and Atavist. Please read below for more information about this exciting new publication: Toxic Planet: The Global Health Crisis, the Pulitzer Center’s newest e-book, is now available free on iTunes and […]
Happy to share with you the news that an image of mine has been shortlisted for the Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year competition. This image was taken as part of my recent project ‘Exotic Pets in China‘, supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. This is the second year running one of my images has been selected for the shortlist, following on from my film The Toxic Price of Leather winning the Environmental Film of the Year […]
A post shared by Everyday Extinction (@everydayextinction) on Sep 19, 2017 at 5:35am PDT It’s with great pleasure that I share with you the announcement of a new collaborative feed we have just launched on Instagram, called ‘Everyday Extinction’. The purpose of the feed is to highlight the causes, effects and solutions to the current 6th global biodiversity extinction crisis. In founding this new feed, I have brought together a mix of wildlife photographers, photojournalists, fine art photographers and scientists […]
Quick post today to say thank you to the team at MCXV for including my Instagram account in their recent post “19 Eye-Opening Instagram Accounts That are Changing the World”. Very flattered to be included alongside some truly important accounts run by individuals and organisations who are trying to make a difference in the world. Be sure to follow all the other accounts, especially my friends at Everyday Climate Change to which I also contribute.
I’m very pleased to share the news that I have been selected for this year’s Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship. I’ll be visiting Cape Cod, in the north-east of the United States during September and am very much looking forward to studying alongside seven other journalists from around the world who are interested in issues surrounding our oceans. I’ll be sharing updates, mainly on Instagram, about my travels to the US and while attending the fellowship, […]
The University of Bolton is offering two 50% reduced tuition fee scholarships for the Beijing, China based postgraduate degree; MA in International Multimedia Journalism for the 2017/18 academic year. Recipient’s tuition fees will be reduced by half meaning scholarship students will pay £3,250 instead of £7,500 for the single year degree program. To be eligible for the scholarship, applicants must meet the criteria for standard entrance requirements. A strong portfolio and commitment to the area of study are of greater […]
17th June marks the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. This is a topic I have spent much time covering during my career, most notably in my two projects ‘Desertification in China‘ and ‘The Broken Land: Drought in India” which was a short film and photo-essay. As outlined by the UN‘s website: “Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas. It is caused primarily by human activities and climatic variations. Desertification does not refer […]