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Title:	Joel Sternfeld: When It Change
Date:	9/21/2024 - 12/1/2024
Address:	Georgia Museum of Art, 90 Carlton Street, Athens, GA 30602
Location:	Athens, GA
Hours:	Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday: 10am - 5pm; Thursday: 10am - 9pm & Sunday: 1pm 5pm
Cost/Cover:	free, donations accepted
Web Page:	https://georgiamuseum.org/exhibit/joel-sternfeld-when-it-cha ...
Contact Info:	706.542.4662

Details:

In late 2005, Montreal hosted the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Government ministers, scientists, leaders of nongovernmental organizations and journalists gathered for this annual meeting of countries participating in the Kyoto Protocol, a policy aimed at reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. American photographer Joel Sternfeld gained access to the conference using newspaper credentials. He hoped to answer a question for himself: “I wanted to know if climate change was real.” What he found was worse than what he expected. “In the opinion of nearly all the participants, not only was climate change occurring, it was also about to reach a tipping point and become irreversible.” Using a telephoto lens from close-up, Sternfeld trained his camera on a range of participants to create an “archive of humanity” amid what was then a largely invisible ecological crisis. “I tried to take photographs of delegates at the moment when the horror of what they were hearing was visible on their faces. At stake, after all, is the continuation of Earth as a planet fit for us to live on.”