Tag:the environment
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]