Images from a Warming Planet
Images from a Warming Planet
The majority of the photos on this site were provided by Ashley Cooper, an award-winning environmental photographer and photojournalist. Ashley runs the world’s only photo agency dedicated to documenting the effects of climate change. You can see all of his work at www.globalwarmingimages.net. This is the world’s largest collection of climate change and renewable energy imagery. Ashley’s work has appeared in newspapers, books, and magazines around the world. His photos are used by WWF International for all of their climate campaigning and advocacy, as well as by Greenpeace, the United Nations, and many other groups.
In 2004, Ashley set off on an epic project to document the impacts of climate change and the use of renewable energy on every continent, the only living photographer to have done so. This incredible journey took him fourteen years to complete. The entire project was self-funded through the sales of images to the media. At the end of the journey, he raised over $50,000 to self-publish “Images from a Warming Planet,” a book containing over 500 photos that best illustrate the effects of climate change. Shortly after publication, the book won first prize in a prestigious British competition and came out to rave reviews.
It is Ashley’s goal to revisit many of the locations where he first documented the impacts of climate change, to capture further effects, as well as to visit new sites. These graphic examples of the damages wrought by global warming are invaluable in bringing home to the public the importance of controlling the emissions of greenhouse gases.
A donation made here will assist him in his effort to capture new and powerful climate change imagery. Thank you.
More information about his work:
www.imagesfromawarmingplanet.net
The book contains 500 of the best images from his journey around the planet. Shortly after publication the book won Gold in the Media and Communications category of the Annual Green Apple Awards, with the ceremony taking place in the Houses of Parliament.
“An extraordinary collection of images and a powerful call to action”. Jonathon Porritt
“Probably the most important book to be published this year”. Dr James Moorey
“These striking and powerful images remind us what’s at stake on the planet we’ve got and the duty we all have to preserve it.” Bill McKibbon, founder 350.org
“This brilliant book is either the crowning example of a dystopian vision of our world made real through the lens of an artist’s genius….marking a moment when the world is changing beyond what we have ever known since humanity first recorded its observations… or it marks the beginning of a new age where the unseen actions of slow violence are suddenly turned into a clear and present danger we are biologically able to react to and philosophically predisposed to” Sir Tim Smit, Eden Project.
Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Ashley Cooper to support his important work.