World View of Global Warming

Photographer

Gary Braasch

Concept

The goal of World View of Global Warming is to illustrate the physical changes and compelling science, which show that global warming and other climate shifts have begun. Too often public information and political debate lack a basis in science and are without a vision of how the earth is changing.

Working with private grants and magazine assignments, I began in 1999 in the polar regions where temperature changes are greatest. By 2006 I had photographed on seven continents.

As often as possible my photographs actually show changes (or comparisons with old photographs), and all focus on locations where scientists are studying change.

World View of Global Warming benefits from a dialogue with scientists and observers around the world. My initial vision of the need for direct evidence of global warming has been proven accurate time and again. Images have appeared in magazines, textbooks, exhibits and websites worldwide, and in Al Gore's slide shows.

Biography

Gary Braasch is an environmental photographer and writer who is the 2006 recipient of the Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography by the Sierra Club. Since 1980 he has documented natural history and environmental issues, from the eruption of Mount St. Helens and the ancient forests of the West Coast of North America to global climate change. He has produced photographic assignments for major magazines. Gary has been named Outstanding Nature Photographer by the North American Nature Photography Association and is a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. University of California Press publishes his book, Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World, in 2007.

www.braaschphotography.com

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