Ice #41 © Meghann Riepenhoff from the series Ice
Humble Arts Foundation and Strange Fire Collective are collaboratively curating two online group shows of photography that responds to the complex psychological impacts of environmental change.
FOUR DEGREES refers to the predicted 4°C raise in our average global temperature by the end of the century. While climate change may have a universal impact, these effects are felt unequally across different communities and cultures. Those who do not experience it immediately in their daily lives may only understand such environmental transformations in the abstract. Those living directly in the shadow of impending man-made and naturally occurring disasters, meanwhile, may experience chronic anxiety.
And many, still, may altogether disavow the human consequences of climate change.
Fear, indifference, anxiety, fatigue, and denial: these represent only partially the full range of reactions and responses to impending environmental futures. Yet taken as a whole, they speak to the predictive strangeness of responding to an uncertain future.
In this open call, we invite submissions of photo-based work that engages with the affective, emotional, and subjective aspects of environmental change. We encourage submissions from a wide range of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, communities, and political perspectives.
This two-part online exhibition will be collaboratively curated by Strange Fire Collective’s InHae Yap and Keavy Handley-Byrne, and Humble Arts Foundation’s Roula Seikaly and Jon Feinstein.
Guidelines:
Deadline to submit: May 20, 2021
Open to all photo-based work. We hope to interpret this category as widely and creatively as possible, across genres.
Please submit up to 5 images and other pertinent info via THIS FORM.
(please note, you’ll need a Gmail address to submit this way. If you do not have one, email us at submit@hafny.org and we’ll help you out – but we really encourage you to use Gmail.)OPTIONAL submission fee: $5+ donation to the Indigenous Environmental Network
Image specifications: 1200 pixels on the longest side @ 72 dpi, sRGB
Please name your .jpgs as follows: First Name_Last Name_Number, i.e. Mary_Jones_1, Mary_Jones_2 etc.
We’d like to thank Meghann Riepenhoff for the permission to use her image, Ice #41 to promote this call. The image is from her series and forthcoming book (which you should get): ICE, recently published by Radius Books.
Thanks so much!
SFC+HAF
