Our Place. Our Climate. Our World:
Through the Eye of the Lens
How is climate change viewed through the eyes of young people and artists?
Through the Eye of the Lens is a nation-wide Aotearoa artist-led photographic project about climate change for young people. Led by Track Zero in creative partnerships with professional photographers, expert climate scientists, local communities and major art festivals, it is an exciting series of projects located in five diverse regions around New Zealand.
In each location, rangatahi (young people) aged 10-14 years are taking part in photography workshops led by some of New Zealand’s most exciting professional photographers. The photographers share their creative expertise and teach them how to use their very own digital cameras they get to keep. They are encouraged to express their ideas on our place, our world, and the impact of climate change on their communities by telling stories ‘through the eye of the (camera) lens’. They’ll also learn about climate science from New Zealand’s top scientists and explore actions they can take to create a resilient, carbon neutral future.
A selection of photographs taken and curated by the young artists and photographers are exhibited in each Arts Festival programme and in an online exhibition that you can view right here.
The multi-year programme (a series of projects) will culminate in a major, free outdoor photographic exhibition in Greater Wellington in early 2022 and a parallel online exhibition featuring the exciting work by the young artists and photographers from the entire series.
Watch this space as we reveal more exciting locations!
IN COLLABORATION WITH:
Major Art Festivals in five locations across Aotearoa, NZ
LOCATIONS:
Through the Eye of the Lens – Wānaka
4 more locations coming soon!
Background image used above – USGS – Earth as Art series 6. ‘Icy Vortex’
Through the Eye of the Lens – Wānaka
In collaboration with the Festival of Colour arts and ideas festival , 12-18 April 2021
The first collaboration is in the wonderful surrounds of Wānaka, Central Otago, where sixteen rangatahi will explore storytelling through a camera lens, learn to express themselves through art and gain life skills to create a better future. They’ll workshop climate issues with leading Earth Systems and Climate Scientist Dr Tim Naish then spend a week with award winning photographers: Auckland-based Raymond Sagapolutele and Wānaka-local Camilla Rutherford.
These experiences will provide learning, sharing and creative opportunities, culminating in an online and onsite exhibition in collaboration with Festival of Colour 2021. Follow us on social media and the Festival of Colour for more detail as the project unfolds. Exciting things to come!
THROUGH THE EYE OF THE LENS – WĀNAKA
12-18 April 2021
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