Conservation Messaging
How effective are images as a tool to help solve conservation issues?
In 2024, the focus is on how imagery concerning critical issues, particularly conservation, is consumed. There’s a question about whether there’s a collective saturation of depressing narratives. The debate centers on whether continually highlighting these issues fosters a positive mood for change or instead disengages people from the subjects. While it’s difficult to quantify the positive impact of conservation photography and journalism, discussions revolve around ideas to alter narratives and reconsider subjects and issues.
Charlie Hamilton James, a conservation photojournalist with over a decade of experience working for National Geographic Magazine, has traversed the globe covering stories in diverse regions, notably East Africa, the Amazon, and the central United States. With a profound passion for narrative storytelling through both film and photography, he constantly seeks avenues to reframe and reimagine subjects, aiming to elicit both visual and emotional impact in his work.
- Duration: 40 minutes
Date
- 03 Mar 2024
- Expired!
Time
- 15:40 - 16:20
Labels
- Focus Group
Speaker
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Charlie Hamilton JamesCharlie Hamilton James, a renowned National Geographic photographer, filmmaker, and author, born in 1973 in Bristol, UK, began his career at 16 on BBC’s ‘Trails of Life’. His work on series like Planet Earth earned acclaim, including his top-ten wildlife film ‘My Halcyon River’. Award-winning TV projects and 13 NGM stories followed. Notable for his ‘End Times’ fine art series, he challenges viewers with bold, controversial imagery.
Organiser
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Xposure International Photography Festival
