Tropic Ice (Bilingual edition): Dialog Between Places Affected by Climate Change - Hardcover

Dombrowski, Barbara

 
9783716518809: Tropic Ice (Bilingual edition): Dialog Between Places Affected by Climate Change
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3716518808 ISBN 13: 9783716518809
Publisher: Benteli Verlag, 2024

Synopsis

Visits to indigenous ethnic groups around the world whose habitats are threatened by external influences and bringing images of them and their habitat together in installations to show that everything and everyone is connected in our age of climate change.

Climate change threatens not only nature, ecosystems and biodiversity, but above all people themselves. To make this visible, Barbara Dombrowski has spent ten years visiting climate-relevant sites on all five inhabited continents and immersing herself in the lives of indigenous peoples whose existence is threatened: the Inuit of East Greenland, the Achuar and Shuar in the Amazon rainforest, Mongolian nomads in the Gobi desert, the Maasai of Tanzania, and the Micronesian population of the island state of Kiribati in the fragile world of the South Pacific.

On life-size textile banners, she presented the people of one region in the habitat of another of the ethnic groups she visited. Through this juxtaposition, she powerfully demonstrates the need to build global bridges and to become aware of a shared responsibility. The portraits themselves, the photographic documentation of the symbolic installations, and the very personal descriptions of her visits illustrate and address the climate crisis on multiple levels in a haunting way.

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About the Author

After studying visual communication, Barbara Dombrowski spent four years in Paris. Since returning to Germany, she has lived in Hamburg and is a member of the laif agency in Cologne. She works for magazines, agencies and NGOs and teaches documentary photography in Hamburg. The photographer and visual artis has received various prizes and awards for her work and shows them continuously in exhibitions.

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Visits to indigenous ethnic groups around the world whose habitats are threatened by external influences and bringing images of them and their habitat together in installations to show that everything and everyone is connected in our age of climate change.

Climate change threatens not only nature, ecosystems and biodiversity, but above all people themselves. To make this visible, Barbara Dombrowski has spent ten years visiting climate-relevant sites on all five inhabited continents and immersing herself in the lives of indigenous peoples whose existence is threatened: the Inuit of East Greenland, the Achuar and Shuar in the Amazon rainforest, Mongolian nomads in the Gobi desert, the Maasai of Tanzania, and the Micronesian population of the island state of Kiribati in the fragile world of the South Pacific.

On life-size textile banners, she presented the people of one region in the habitat of another of the ethnic groups she visited. Through this juxtaposition, she powerfully demonstrates the need to build global bridges and to become aware of a shared responsibility. The portraits themselves, the photographic documentation of the symbolic installations, and the very personal descriptions of her visits illustrate and address the climate crisis on multiple levels in a haunting way.

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Publisher
Benteli Verlag
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3716518808
ISBN 13 
9783716518809
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
320