Author:sgallagher
What equipment do professional photographers use? I get this question a lot. It usually comes from my students, workshop participants or from Q&A sessions when I present my work. It’s a fair question and one that I am always happy to answer as it often gives people an insight into how I create my work and the types of equipment I like to use. I thought I would share my answer to this common question for visitors here on my […]
I am pleased to announce that Luc Forsyth is the recipient of my 2017 Mentorship, a free tutorship which aims to give early career photographers and multimedia journalists an opportunity for feedback, critiques and advice on their work. Luc’s work focuses on social and environmental issues in both Asia and Latin America. His early work demonstrates a strong vision and clearly exhibits lots of potential in his future work. I’m looking forward to developing his projects over the course of […]
I’m pleased to have work as part of this exhibition at the Centre for Photography and Film in Singapore, as part of the EverydayClimateChange outreach programme. Please find all the details you need below if you are in Singapore and able to visit the exhibition. From the OBJECTIFS website: EverydayClimateChange is an Instagram feed where photographers from all over the world have posted images regarding climate change. As these photographers are diverse and have different cultures, the assortment of images […]
#Regram #RG @everydayclimatechange: Image by @sean_gallagher_photo A young Tibetan man embraces his yak on the shore of Qinghai Lake. The lake is China's largest inland body of water, lying at over 3000m on the Tibetan Plateau. The region contains the sources of the Yangtze, Mekong, and Yellow Rivers which feed water to millions downstream. As a result of climate change, temperatures are rising on the Tibetan Plateau faster than anywhere on earth outside the polar regions. As glaciers melt, grasslands […]
I was pleased to be invited back to speak on the Multimedia Week Podcast, talking with DJ Clark, Sharron Lovell and Cong Yan about some of the latest news and developments in the field of multimedia. For those of you who are not aware of the podcast, the weekly show discusses many aspects related to multimedia journalism from practical discussions about the latest equipment, to journalist interviews with leading practitioners and onto discussion about trends within the industry. The podcast […]
A quick post today to show you a recent image feature on the National Geographic Creative website in the “What We Liked” section. Each week, editors from National Geographic pick their favourite images from those published by the agency on social media, mostly from the agency’s photographer’s Instagram accounts. As a contributing photographer to the agency, they picked out one of my images as they favourite’s of the week for the first post of 2017. The image is of three […]
Very pleased to share this recent publication with you all from an assignment I did late last year in Mongolia for Smithsonian Magazine. The story focuses on the revival of the Przewalski Horse, Mongolia’s wild equine which is experiencing a resurgence after being successfully reintroduced in the wild. It’s a rare good-news story from the world of conservation. Travelling to the frigid Mongolian steppe near the capital Ulan Bator, I spent a few days stalking these beautiful animals as they […]
I’m delighted to share the news that six of my images will be on display in a public exhibtion at the upcoming C40 Cities 2016 Mayor’s Summit, in Mexico City. “The C40 Mayors Summit in Mexico City will bring together the largest group of local leaders fighting climate change since COP21. C40 cities around the world are leading the way in reducing carbon emissions and protecting people from potential risks. Their work is setting a strong example for others – […]
Bearing the Cost of Environmental Degradation The past decade has witnessed an exponential increase of environmental damages; public awareness has grown at a slower pace but has finally reached the point of dialogue and action. And this, thanks to the contribution of early voices such as photographer Sean Gallagher. I spoke with the Photographic Museum of Humanity this month about my long-term work documenting environmental crises in Asia. Here is an excerpt of the short feature. Click through to read […]
It’s a good week to be a Giant Panda. News has just broke that the species has been upgraded from ‘endangered’ to ‘vulnerable’ by the IUCN (the International Union for the Conservation of Nature), the organisation responsible for assessing and monitoring the status of the world’s animal and plant species. In 2011 I did a story titled ‘The Panda’s Forest: Biodiversity Loss‘ which focused on the efforts of the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center in Sichuan Province, in south-west China, central […]