186 - Coal + Ice: Visualizing the Climate Crisis

Published: March 15, 2022, 1 p.m.

Coal + Ice, a powerful global exhibition of photographs, videos, and immersive imagery that focuses on the climate crisis and provokes action is now on display in Washington DC through April 22, 2022.

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Coal + Ice began in Beijing in 2011 with the unprecedented showing of images of Chinese coal miners taken by Chinese photographers. It has now now expanded to the work of\xa050 photographers\xa0from around the world, capturing images of the climate catastrophe as it unfolds around the globe.
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\nPhotographers and video artists include:\xa0Jimmy Chin, David Breashears, Song Chao,\xa0Camille Seaman, Gideon Mendel, Meredith Kohut, Jamey Stillings, Matt Black, Barbara Kopple, Dana Lixenberg and historical work from Robert Capa, Lewis Hine, Gordon Parks, Eugene Smith,\xa0Bruce Davidson and others.\xa0Coal + Ice\xa0also features installations, panels, music, conversations, cash awards to young artists weaving climate into their work and more.

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For over a decade the exhibit has traveled the world\xa0evolving and expanding as the climate crisis unfolds.\xa0First Beijing, then Delhi, then Paris, Shanghai, San Francisco and now in Washington DC at the Kennedy Center through April 22, 2022.

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Before the Pandemic, when Coal + Ice came to a massive exhibition hall on a pier in San Francisco, we traveled through the exhibit with our microphone. Special thanks to Susan Meiseles, Orville Schell, Geng Yunsheng, Michael Tilson Thomas,\xa0Joshua Robison, Gideon Mendel and Jeroen de Vries.

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Coal + Ice was produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) and Evan Jacoby with help from Brandi Howell and Nathan Dalton. Mixed by Jim McKee at Earwax Productions.