Climate and Culture

Photography

Photography

Visual storytellers play an invaluable role in developing our relationship to the environment. Experience Earth through the eyes—and lenses—of some of its most inspiring imagemakers.

2022 Through the Lens of Atmos Contributors Members of our creative ecosystem share photographs taken in 2022, reflecting on moments of loss, joy, freedom, perseverance, and togetherness.

Art & Culture Photography

Quicker than Coal Ash Photographer Will Warasila spent a year and a half getting to know the residents, the landscapes, and the structures of energy and power of Walnut Cove—where toxic coal ash is stored.

Art & Culture Photography

Make Believe: Vignettes of Everyday Magic Excerpted from Jonas Lindstroem’s new project Believe, these seemingly unconnected images reveal an intensely personal lens on how fragmented modern life can be.

Art & Culture Photography

An Ode to Common Places Photographer Scott Rossi reflects on how public parks can create space to soothe and restore the human spirit.

Art & Culture Photography

The Crystalline Beauty of Iceland’s Ice Caves Nowhere in the world are the myriad ways that water manifests more prominent than in Iceland. On its glassy shores, a dazzling display of crystalline caves and shapeshifting seas remind us that form and flow are forever in flux.

Science & Nature Photography

A Common Thread Photographer Kin Coedel spends time with the local communities of the Tibetan plateau dedicated to conserving sustainable, age-old textile-making practices.

Art & Culture Photography

Life In a Blue Zone: Okinawa and the Wisdom of Community In our pursuit of longer life, we overlook the experience of the long-lived.

Identity & Community Well Being

Over the Rainbow: How Culture Shapes Color In the Western world, we are taught that there are seven colors in the rainbow. But is it true?

Science & Nature Art & Culture

Cristina Mittermeier Reflects On Her Life Underwater The ocean churns with life, from the surface we swim on to the deep underwater currents below. Photographer and conservationist Cristina Mittermeier talks about how the ocean powers life on Earth—and how urgently we must protect it.

Science & Nature Ocean Life

Full Spectrum: Honoring Queerness in Nature For many queer people, nature is a place free of judgment and conformity, where diversity is celebrated and crucial to survival. Here, queer models weighed in on how queerness and nature connect—a reminder that there is nothing more natural than being who you are.

Art & Culture Queer Ecology

My End of the World When it feels as if the world is unraveling, nature remains a source of sublimity. But who is afforded access to beauty during times of apocalypse?

Art & Culture Deep Ecology

In Vietnam, Cultivating Harmony Across the Spectrum of Disability At Vietnam’s Peaceful Bamboo Family, teachers and residents across a spectrum of disability cultivate community—with each other and with the land.

Identity & Community Well Being

Richard Mosse: Depicting Ecological Collapse in the Amazon The photographic artist turns his lens on the devastating ecological narratives that have emerged from Bolsonaro’s sustained attack on the Brazilian Amazon for his latest project, Broken Spectre—which is nothing less than a call to action.

Art & Culture Anthropocene

Visible Light: Colorism and Perception Light touches all that we see, giving way to a world of complex shapes, tones, and textures—from the skin to the walls we live in.

Art & Culture Ethical Fashion

Chasing Rainbows in the Azores In the Azores off the coast of Portugal, verdant, flower-lined mountains are lit up by rainbows filtered through waterfalls and sunsets reflected on the ocean. Through this play of light and water, the islands offer a kaleidoscopic view of nature’s beauty.

Science & Nature Photography

The Tide Country Deep in the Sundarbans, life is governed by the flow and ebb of the tides. The river delta region that spans across India and Bangladesh is famous for its vast mangrove forests that are threatened by rising sea levels and increasing temperatures. For the past seven years, photographer Swastik Pal has been captivated by the people who call this fragile ecosystem home. His ongoing project Tide Country documents this changing landscape and its impact on their way of life.

Ocean Life Photography

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