Amazon Photography Exhibition
Photographers Sebastião Salgado and Per Anders Pettersson present a selection of previously unseen photographs from the ongoing “Genesis” project at Somerset House, London. Showing images shot entirely in the Amazon, the exhibition is in aid of the Sky Rainforest Rescue campaign, a joint venture between the broadcaster Sky and the WWF.
For the last seven years Salgado’s Genesis project has documented the life of the Amazon rainforest, capturing its breathtaking beauty. He has spent time with Amazonian natives and lived amongst them, describing their life as a very “pure” one.
Pettersson, by contrast, has recently documented the devastation to this natural wonder, and shows the affect of deforestation and the work by Rainforest Rescue to try and save a tiny area of the Amazon Rainforest.
You’ve got until the 4th of December to see these images at Somerset House, Holborn, London and admission to the exhibition is free. Visit the Amazon exhibition at:
Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
And see the website at http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/amazon
Editors comment: This exhibition must be seen. To understand the beauty in a part of the world that most of us may never visit should bring home the sadness that the loss of such natural wonder will mean. The rainforest must be saved. No more should be destroyed and much of it should be allowed to regenerate.
The Sky Rainforest Rescue campaign is apparently just a 3-year joint venture whereas I feel it should be a permanent alliance but with the work of Salgado and Pettersson the natural environment not just at home but far away should be at the forefront of world issues. Of course, people need jobs and stable economies but none of that matters without a stable environment.
Grow Your Own (Infographic)
It looks like the concept of “grow your own” is really picking up again in Britain.
Whether it’s due to the wave of austerity sweeping the nation, allowing people to supplement purchased food and reduce their costs, or the sheer satisfaction of being able to plant, grow, harvest and taste your own fruit and veg, grow your own is a most welcome change in the national psyche.
To illustrate this trend LoveTheGarden.com have commissioned Studio Leigh//Leigh to produce a Grow Your Own infographic, an abbreviated version you can see posted below.
Our favourite fact? The most common form of plant feed is organic, showing the concern of the nation’s home growers for the drive to avoid modern synthetic pesticides and fertilisers.
And on that note, we’re off to re-pot our chilli plants, water the strawberries and see how well our organic ginger is growing. Enjoy and click the image to see the full glory of the Grow Your Own infographic…
Grow your own infographic from LoveTheGarden.com
Sculpture – Grimes Glen, NY
When I was out in the states last month I spent most of my time in Connecticut and upstate New York. It was really good because I spent a lot of time getting down with nature and checking out the land.
Down by Naples, NY State, was a wonderful place called Grimes Glen, a typical little US creek with a couple of waterfalls.
The falls themselves were cool but I thought I’d share with you the sculpture by the bridge on the way up the glen. Someone had painstakingly positioned all these rocks, with mortar to hold them together.
Very Andy Goldsworthy, don’t you think?