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.

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