EverydayClimateChange Instagram Project

Auckland Festival of Photography is proud to partner with this global awareness project based on Instagram, EverydayClimateChange.

EverydayClimateChange (ECC) photographers live on 6 continents and share photographs made on 7 continents to present visual evidence that climate change doesn't just happen "over there" but that climate change is also happening "right here".

Photography is most powerful when it can communicate deeper meaning by freezing transience. No other medium can better reveal deeper truths, than a camera can in the hands of someone who understands its unique potential. ECC is not a western view on climate change. Photographers come from the north, the south; the east and the west; and are as diverse as the cultures in which we were all raised. ECC presents the work of committed, enlightened photographers who share back stories, contextualizing not only the effects of climate change but also potential solutions to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases on our world. The photographs peel back the visual layers and look more closely at the visual evidence. COP21, the climate change summit was held in Paris in December 2015. So climate change was, and still is, finally at the top of the agenda for a lot of global policy makers that would not ordinarily give it such a high priority.

The pace of climate change, compared to the frenetic news cycle, is slow. Greenhouse gases are invisible. So climate change is easy to ignore. The goal of the ECC Instagram feed is to show that no one anywhere is immune to effects of climate change. The goal is to reach beyond the cloistered photography world and the stuffy halls of academia to those who will be most affected by climate change: in other words, YOU. Please send your New Zealand climate change images to @everydayclimatechange Thanks to James Whitlow Delano, founder of ECC for the text. Image credits - Photo: James Whitlow Delano Storm front from one of three typhoons converging on the Tokyo megalopolis sends sheets of rain down on the city. Climate scientists say that rare, severe weather events will be more common in the age of global warming. Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Photo Elisabetta Zavoli Fist full of shrimp. I project about the rapidly disappearing mangroves due to shrimp farms. 1/3 of mangroves have been destroyed in the last 50 years. Mangroves store up to 20 billion tonnes of carbon and these forests act as protective nurseries for young ocean fish.

James Whitlow Delano - Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Elisabetta Zavoli - Shrimp