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  • Adam Wentworth
    Journalism

    Adam Wentworth is a freelance writer and communications professional based in Brighton, UK. He has spent 10 years working in renewable energy and sustainability. He was previously an editor at Climate Action and his work has appeared in a variety of trade publications.

  • Aled Llewelyn
    Photography

    Aled Llewelyn is an internationally published freelance photographer based in south west Wales. He travels globally helping create content for clients. He is a regular contributor to all of the UK daily newspapers, covering a variety of stories and issues.

  • Alice Ball
    Journalism

    Alice Ball is a journalism student from London. A selfconfessed nutrition geek, if you can’t find her in the kitchen cooking up a storm she’s probably on a run or a hike. Alice is particularly fascinated by
    the effects of the food industry on climate change, having chosen to adopt a plant-based lifestyle three years ago.

  • Alireza Memariani
    Photography

    Alireza Memariani is a Tehran native who graduated in Industrial Design at Tehran’s University of Art & Architecture in 2009. Since graduating he has had a number of solo exhibitions in Iran and has been part of some group exhibitions in Iran, France and the US. His work spans sculpture, film and photography. Alireza often explores the concepts of death, loss, mourning and vanishing species.

     

  • André Carrilho
    Illustration

    André Carrilho has won 30 national and international prizes in illustration, editorial cartoon, animation and caricature, and has shown his work in group and solo exhibitions around the
    world. He has been published in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Independent on Sunday and New Statesman and various other publications.

  • André da Loba
    Illustration

    André da Loba is a published and exhibited artist whose work has received international
    acclaim. As an illustrator, animator, sculptor, and educator, André’s combination of curiosity,
    experience, knowledge and unknowing serves as the constant medium with which he creates
    and inspires. His list of clients include The New York Times, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, The
    Washington Post, The Boston GlobeNewsweek, and Bloomberg.

  • André Letria
    Illustration

    André Letria was born in Lisbon in 1973. He has worked as an illustrator since 1992, regularly illustrating books for children and collaborating with newspapers and magazines. In 2010, he founded Pato Lógico, an independent publishing house where he works with writers and illustrators he admires.

     

  • Andreea Constantinescu
    Journalism

    Andreea Constantinescu is an investor, entrepreneur and thought leader in the sustainable investing space. She has also recently joined as a Partner at Planet First Partners.

    She is leveraging a 14-year career in mainstream finance into accelerating the path of development and adoption of environmental technologies. Originally from Romania, Andreea has a Bachelors in Economics from the University of Chicago and has lived in the finance capitals of the world.

     

  • Antoine Beauvois
    Illustration

    Antoine Beauvois is a comics artist and illustrator from Paris. He runs the publishing house Flutiste with two friends, where he creates, draws and edits his and others comic books. He has been nominated “Young Talent” at the International Comic Festival in Angouleme. In his own time, he works as an AD, screen-prints his drawings, and when possible, he sleeps.

  • Armazém Criativo
    Web
  • ARTICO FRACASSI
    Art Direction

    Matteo Artico and Silvia Fracassi received their master’s in architecture from IUAV University in Venice. They worked for several years in the Netherlands and Italy on a diversity of projects. Together they established Artico Fracassi architecture studio in 2018 in Treviso, Italy. “Snapshot from a near future” represents a B-side project of the studio that seeks to highlight the social and environmental issues of our time through a visual diary.

  • Atelier D'Alves
    Art Direction
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  • Benjamin Swanson
    Photography

    Benjamin Swanson’s still life photographs focus on the study of materials. Increasingly interested in the tension between manmade objects and the natural world, Benjamin’s work is driven by contemporary debate surrounding sustainability, the environment, and consumerism. Benjamin initially came to photography from a background in sculpture and installation, and as a result his
    images demonstrate an acute material and spatial literacy. His compositions are beautifully stripped back to balance light, texture and space. Early project ‘The Conquest of Materials’ set the foundation for this interest, and led him to embark on a Masters in Contemporary Photographic Art at the University of Westminster, where he produced key body of work ’The Isolation of Objects’.
    Benjamin has been shortlisted as a Magnum Emerging Photographer, and his personal projects featured in British Journal of Photography, and Source Photographic Review, amongst others.

  • Benjamin Youd
    Photography

    Benjamin Youd is a portrait photographer who specialises in creating natural and observational stories that affect change. His passion about environmental and social issues help to define the work that he creates.

     

  • Betsy Joles
    Journalism

    Betsy Joles is a journalist and photographer based in Pakistan. Her work across mediums focuses on the aftermath of conflict and the human side of geopolitics in Asia. She is also interested in stories related to climate change-induced migration and environmental inequality. Before moving to Pakistan, she spent two years covering China and has reported from numerous other countries in Europe and the Middle East. She is a grantee of the International Women’s Media Foundation and
    the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

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  • Cátia Lima
    Design

    Cátia Lima was born in Lisbon but spent most of her childhood in a rural village in the north of the country. She studied design and has a master’s degree in communication design at ESAD. Living in Porto, she is a passionate graphic designer and a nature enthusiast, working with Atelier d’Alves and growing her seeds in part time.

  • Chris King
    Journalism

    Chris King is a documentary storyteller using all forms of media to engage people on issues related to the food system and the climate crisis. Chris also runs various initiatives to empower others to tell their stories and provide platforms upon which to share them.

     

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  • Daniel Beltrá
    Photography

    Daniel Beltrá is a photographer based in Seattle, Washington. His passion for conservation is evident in images of our environment that are evocatively poignant. The most striking large-scale photographs by Beltrá are images shot from the air. This perspective gives the viewer a wider context to the beauty and destruction he witnesses, as well as revealing a delicate sense of scale.

  • Dr. Lara Frisch
    Research

    Dr. Lara Frisch, based in Berlin, has a PhD in group communication and works as a teamwork consultant and systemic supervisor. She sees her job as an endeavour to connect the dots between people, continuing her research on selforganisation, collective reflection, Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication & David Bohm’s Dialogue. thinkingdialogue.com

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  • Emma Bryce
    Journalism

    Emma Bryce is a London-based freelance journalist. She writes about a range of science- and health-based topics, and is particularly drawn to stories about the unfolding impacts of climate change on society. She has a Masters degree in Science, Health, and Environmental reporting from New York University. Her reporting has seen her sailing on Finland’s icy seas, wandering through palm groves in Morocco, and exploring abandoned coal mines in Germany.

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  • Fabeha Monir
    Journalism

    Fabeha Monir is a Dhaka based visual journalist who uses still images, text and video to provide multi-faceted storytelling for editorial and non-profit clients. As a humanist photographer, she tells peoplefocused stories that explore the themes of social development, climate emergency, migration, gender violence and forced exile.

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  • Gonçalo Viana
    Illustration

    Gonçalo Viana was born in Lisbon. He studied architecture and moved to London, where he worked for a few years. Back in Lisbon he started work as a freelance illustrator. Geometry seeped back in, providing a framework for his concepts, strong colours and textures.

  • Grant Hindsley
    Photography

    Grant Hindsley is an editorial and commercial photographer based in Seattle, WA, USA. He is from outside Chicago but has a deep love of the American West. His personal work is largely focused on human geography, and in his free time he tries his best to combine good times outside with his partner, dog, and bike.

  • Greg Kahn
    Photography

    Greg Kahn is a Washington, DC – based American documentary fine art photographer. Kahn’s work
    concentrates on issues that shape personal and cultural identity. His Pulitzer Prize nominated project, “It’s Not a House, It’s a Home,” explores how the foreclosure crisis in Florida defined a new
    class of homelessness. His recent project in Cuba considers how governance molds individuality.
    And in Kahn’s ongoing project 3 Millimeters, the quiet depletion of land is the catalyst for the evolution of the inhabitants’ identity. His clients include AARP, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, National Geographic Traveler, New York Times Magazine, Wired among others.

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  • Henrique Nascimento
    Design

    Henrique Nascimento is a Strategist & Design Researcher. His works include installations, visions, services, and products for companies like BMW Group, Audi Innovation Lab, and Siemens.

    With an MA from Design Academy Eindhoven, where he researched how machine intelligence and human intelligence will work together in the future. Shortly after, he co-founded the multidisciplinary collective Me you and the Robot, investigating the implications of robotisation on the future of work. From early 2018, he joined PCH Innovations, a technological consultancy studio in Berlin, where he worked as a strategic & service designer on new visions and solutions for a new global logic. He is currently based in Lisbon where he works in service & strategy design projects.

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  • Joel Day
    Journalism

    Joel Day is a recent City University of London journalism grad, currently freelancing. You’ll always find Joel reading or writing something. Consumed by wanderlust but can never afford to travel. Welsh at heart, slowly losing his accent.

  • Joel Redman
    Photography

    Joel Redman is a contemporary artist whose work focuses on communities, climate change and the environment. He works nationally and internationally, and this search for subjects has led him around the world, from the deserts of North America and South-American rainforests to the Arctic Circle or the Highlands of Scotland. His work considers landscapes and the people who inhabit them, revealing this complex relationship through a combination of intimate detail and sweeping
    panorama. Joel’s photographs have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts and he was shortlisted for the International Photographer of the year at the Lucie Awards.

  • John Kazior
    Illustration

    John Kazior is an American design critic and illustrator based in Malmö, Sweden where he writes about the city’s many different species and their entangled lives. His writing on sustainability and design in the climate crisis can also be found in MOLD Magazine, the American Institute for Graphic Arts, and The Baffler.

     

  • José Cardoso
    Design

    José Cardoso is a Portobased freelance illustrator and character designer working under the Tomba Lobos alias since 2012. He is a regular contributor to social and human rights related magazines and institutions like the International Labour Organization, Monocle, United Nations and Weapons of Reason magazine among many others.

  • Julia Gunther
    Photography

    Julia Gunther is a German photographer who specialises in documentary projects. Her work explores themes of representation, gender, visual identity and social activism, specifically, the role of women in society. Julia’s work has been featured in international publications and has been selected for exhibitions and festivals around the world. Her photography has won awards at the Wellcome Photography Prize, has been shown as part of the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition, and shortlisted for the Gomma Grant, Rabo Photographic Portrait Prize and Felix Schoeller Photography Award.

  • Julie Mallat
    Web

    Julie Mallat studied Design and Cultures at the University of the Arts of London, and is graduating from SciencesPo Paris with a Masters degree in Media and Communication. She is based between Paris and Beirut and has been working as an editorial assistant for Icarus Complex Magazine since January 2021. Specialised in Environmental Communication, Julie believes in the power of language and visual storytelling to induce climate action. Julie has also recently started an epic IG page dismantling propaganda in @theclimatepropagandist

     

     

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  • Kristine Nyborg
    Photography

    Kristine Nyborg is a Norwegian freelance photographer based in Ottawa, Canada. She pursues long-term projects focused on the intersection of mental health and sustainability, placing people’s relationships and their own voices in the spotlight. She has a degree in photojournalism, a master’s degree in ethnography, and her book Learning To Speak Bear is set to be published by Yoffy Press later this year.

     

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  • Laura Pannack
    Photography

    Laura Pannack is a London based photographer. Renowned for her portraiture and social documentary work, she seeks to explore the complex relationship between subject and photographer. Her work has been extensively exhibited and published worldwide, including at The National Portrait Gallery, The Houses of Parliament, Somerset House and the Royal Festival Hall in London. Her artwork has received much acclaim and won numerous awards, among which are the John Kobal Award , Vic Odden prize, World Photo Press Awards, Juliet Margaret Cameron award and the HSBC Prix de la Photographie prize. Driven by research-led, self-initiated projects, Pannack seeks to fully understand the lives of those she captures on film in order to portray them as truthfully as possible.  Perceiving “time, trust and understanding” to be the key elements to achieving this, many of her projects develop over several years, helping her achieve a genuine connection between herself and her sitter and allowing her to capture the intimacy, shared ideas and shared experiences of this relationship.

  • Layli Foroudi
    Journalism

    Layli Foroudi is a freelance journalist based in Tunis. She mostly writes about North Africa, covering a range of topics – from trees to viral videos to nostalgia to social unrest – for The Times, Reuters, the Financial Times, and the London Review of Books, among others. She was the recipient of the 2019 Richard Beeston Bursary in association with The Times. Previously, she worked as an assistant producer on Al Jazeera English’s media analysis programme, The Listening Post and as an arts reporter in Moscow.

     

  • Le.Blue
    Illustration

    An illustration duo based in London, Matt Blue and Loanne Le started collaborating based on a mutual passion for contemporary art, graphic novels, comics and manga. Their works are hand-drawn pieces set predominantly in black and white. Much of their work  takes inspiration from western cultures and Asian ideologies. Often exploring how polar opposites can also complement each other, common themes are ink and digital, positive and negative, spiritual and political, archaic and futuristic.

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  • Mahdi Khmili
    Photography

    Mahdi started his career in his home town of Kairouan at the age of 17 when he founded an association called I-Photo Kairouan that organised photography events. What started as a hobby turned into a profession, when he also took on filmmaking. Mahdi is the head of media at el Seed’s studio.

     

  • Mandy Barker
    Photography

    Mandy Barker is an international award-winning photographer whose work involving marine plastic debris for more than 12 years, has received global recognition. Working with scientists she aims to raise awareness about plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, highlighting the harmful effect on marine life and ourselves – ultimately leading the viewer to take action. Barker’s work has been published in over 50 different countries including; National Geographic Magazine, TIME Magazine, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Smithsonian, The New Scientist, The Explorer’s Journal, UNESCO, The British Journal of Photography, VOGUE, the World Wildlife Fund. Her work has been exhibited world-wide from MoMA Museum of Modern Art, and the United Nations headquarters in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum London, and the Science & Technology Park Hong Kong.

     

  • Marie-Flore Pirmez
    Journalism

    A voracious listener (and sometime creator) of podcasts, Marie-Flore Pirmez is a firm believer in the revival of journalism thanks to the many opportunities offered by the web and long-form magazines. She craves all kinds of journalistic ideas with a strong focus on social, environment, digital, culture and gender related issues. When she takes off her journalist’s hat, you’re likely to find her hiking or in a yoga studio.

  • Mary Mattingly
    Art Direction

    Mary Mattingly is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. Mattingly explores the themes of home, travel, cartography, and humans’ relationships with each other, with the environment, with machines, and with corporate and political entities. She has been recognized for creating photographs and sculptures depicting and representing futuristic and obscure landscapes, for making wearable sculpture, “wearable homes,” and for her ecological installations, including the Waterpod (2009).

    She founded Swale, an edible landscape on a barge in New York City. Docked at public piers but following waterways common laws. Mary Mattingly’s artwork has also been exhibited at the Istanbul Biennale, the Havana Biennial, Storm King, the International Center of Photography, the Seoul Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and the Palais de Tokyo. With the U.S. Department of State and Bronx Museum of the Arts she participated in the smARTpower project, traveling to Manila.

  • Maryam Ishani
    Journalism

    Maryam Ishani is a Hong Kong-based journalist and editor for Agence France-Presse covering the Asia Pacific and previously for Foreign Policy and The Guardian. With a B. Arts from McGill and an M.Sc from Columbia, she specialises in security issues and climate and is currently writing her first book about migration.

  • Matjaz Krivic
    Photography

    Matjaz Krivic is a documentary photographer capturing stories of people and places, focusing on environmental issues. For 25 years he has covered the face of the earth in his intense, personal and aesthetically moving style that has won him several prestigious awards, including World Press Photo in 2016.

     

     

  • Mehran Cheraghchi
    Photography

    Mehran’s interest in art and photography in particular started after earning a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Arak University. Today, Mehran is a professional art, industrial and advertising photographer and teacher who has eight solo shows under his belt from Tehran, Tabriz, Istanbul to Bursa.  His photography has been published in domestic and international magazines. Mehran teaches photography at The Youth Cinema Association, and holds workshops at universities in Iran and Turkey.

  • Mike Danner
    Photography

    Danner’s artistic works adopts a political and anthropological approach, where he investigates contested sites and histories. The work takes the form of photographs and moving image, which often include archival material and text intertwined into multilayered systems. In CRITICAL MASS Danner investigates the nuclear industry and its controversies.

  • Mike Zenari
    Photography

    Mike Zenari has been passionate about photography from a young age. He enjoyed experimenting with various cameras, lenses and films. He likes to capture moments on the spot and tell stories with his images.

  • Miko Maciaszek
    Illustration

    Miko Maciaszek is a freelance illustrator from Toronto, Canada. He received his BA in Illustration at Sheridan College in Oakville and has been working since 2012 with clients including The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Scientific American. Miko is currently based in Warsaw, Poland where he also studies botany and beekeeping.

  • Mona Iman
    Legal

    Mona Iman is an attorney at Immigrant Defenders Law Center, a non-profit law firm in California, where she provides pro bono deportation defense to unaccompanied minors and detained adults seeking asylum and other legal protections in the U. S.. She has broad experience in human rights
    advocacy and international legal development in government and civil society settings. She earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

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  • Na’im Moore
    Illustration

    Na’im Moore is a Barcelona-based artist and illustrator. Inspired by the absurdity that afflicts all of humanity in equal portion, Naim’s pared-down ink drawings explore connections between humans, other humans, and their environments. His work can be found on various walls, publications, products, and bodies around the world, as well as on instagram at @naimonpaper

  • Nabil Samadani
    Design

    Nabil Samadani is a native Californian, born to parents who immigrated from Iran during the Iranian revolution. Nabil owns and operates his brand SALT SURF, which he uses as a platform to create an inclusive space in the surf world and as a vehicle to help people gain an appreciation for the beauty of nature. He also works as a creative director, designer and photographer. Nabil currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

     

  • Nadim Roberts
    Journalism

    Nadim Roberts is a London-based journalist and documentary filmmaker whose work has been published in The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Granta and the CBC, among others.

  • Naurarat Suksomstarn
    Photography

    Naurarat Suksomstarn is a photographer based in London and a keen free diver trying to save the ocean on one breath-hold at a time.

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  • Olivia Rafferty
    Journalism

    Olivia Rafferty is an aspiring Middle Eastern correspondent currently getting her journalism degree at City University of London. She believes that no action is too small to finding a solution to our climate crisis.

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  • Pauline Cremer
    Illustration

    Pauline Cremer is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer from Berlin. Her works also approach complex topics in a humorous and playful way. In addition to digital illustrations, she likes to experiment with various printing techniques, such as linocut. Her illustrations have appeared in the Berliner Zeitung, Delayed Gratification and in the daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel.

  • Peter Garritano
    Photography

    Peter Garritano is a photographer based in New York City, US. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, TIME, Wired, Fast Company, CNN, The Atlantic, VICE, People,
    The Huffington Post, Wallpaper*, Elle, Dazed and various other publications. In 2017 he was named among PDN’s 30 New And Emerging Photographers To Watch.

  • Pierre-Paul Pariseau
    Illustration

    Pierre-Paul Pariseau is an award-winning illustrator working for clients in North America and Europe and exhibiting his personal work internationally. His medium is a mix of collage and computer transformation.

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  • Rafal Kwiczor
    Illustration

    Rafal lives in Warsaw and illustrates as a freelancer. He builds complicated narratives, based on movement, in which one must discover the element that drives the whole. A game from the 90s – The Even More Incredible Machine perfectly reflects his illustrations, reflective of a closed, sad, nostalgic and even depressing world, filled with embarrassed heads in outdated hairstyles.

  • Richard Allen
    Illustration

    Richard is a graduate of Central Saint Martins College in London where he studied Fine Art (Painting) and Illustration. In May 2017 he won the prestigious V&A Illustration prize, winning the Editorial Illustration award and the Moira Gemmill Memorial prize for Illustrator of the Year. In May 2019 he won the V&A award for Illustrated Journalism. Richard has won gold medals from the UK’s Association of Illustrators in their annual juried awards. He has also won gold and silver awards from the Society of Illustrators (LA) the Society of Illustrators (NY) and 3×3. He has been recognized by Communication Arts. A.Richard Allen’s picture book, ‘Apes-a-Go-Go!’ was published by Harper Collins/ Random House.

    Clients include the New Yorker, the Folio Society, Plansponsor, New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall St Journal, The Guardian, the Financial Times, The Times, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Esquire, Reader’s Digest, BBC Worldwide, Nokia , Siemens, Orange, and Greenpeace.
    Richard also paints and in 2016 won the Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year.

     

     

  • Roz Yazdan
    Research

    Roz Yazdan is from Vancouver, Canada and has a background in policy for the federal government. She also works on election campaigns as a data and political strategist. Roz is currently completing
    research on the European Union sustainable finance paradigm. Roz has a Masters of Science in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics.

  • Ruby Sgueglia
    Illustration

    Ruby Sgueglia is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator, currently holding a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design. Born and raised in New York’s Hudson Valley, their work is heavily influenced by the scenery and history of the area. In addition to honoring the Hudson Valley, Ruby explores the physical landscapes of the subconscious, creating surreal and dreamlike scenes.

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  • Saleem Vaillencourt
    Journalism

    Saleem Vaillancourt has written about climate, human rights in Iran, the legacy of Rwanda’s genocide, politics and society across Asia, and the role of art in social change. He has also produced murals in New York on education equity, documentary films about Iran, South Africa and Harlem, and an oral history project on race in America.

  • Sara Wong
    Illustration

    Sara Wong is an illustrator living in the Bay Area. She is most interested in amplifying the emotional undertones of stories big and small and lends her illustrations often to social issues. Some of her clients include The New York Times, NPR, The Marshall Project, and Columbia Journalism Review.

     

  • Sebastião Peixoto
    Illustration

    Sebastião Peixoto works as a freelance illustrator, collaborating with publishers such as Planeta, Leya, Porto Editora and La Fragatina. His work has been published by Fanzines, magazines and newspapers. He regularly participates in collective exhibitions of painting and illustration in Portugal and abroad.

     

  • Simon Simard
    Photography

    Simon Simard is a photographer based in Boston, MA. He has worked for editorial clients such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and The Hollywood Reporter.

     

  • Solmaz Daryani
    Photography

    Solmaz Daryani is an Iranian documentary photographer loosely based between Iran and the UK. She is a grantee of the Magnum Foundation, National Geographic Society grantee, and a member of Women Photograph and Diversify Photo. Her work is mainly known for exploring the themes of climate change, water crisis, focusing on humans and their relationships with the environment, communities, and cultures. Her ongoing project, The Eyes of Earth, is the 2015 London Magnum Photos Grant recipient, 2020 The Alexandra Boulat scholarship, 2018 PhotogrVphy Grant, and 2021 FotoEvidence Book Award.
    2020. She started approaching photography as a self-taught photographer in 2012, after independent studies on cinematography.

     

  • Sonja Van Renssen
    Journalism

    Sonja is a freelance energy, climate and environment journalist and moderator based in Brussels. She writes for Nature Climate Change, Platts, Foresight Climate & Energy, ENDS Europe, Natural Gas World, NNA Europe and others. Sonja regularly moderates high-level debates and conferences on energy, climate and environment. She won a BBC-sponsored “Young Broadcaster of the Year Award” in 2005.

     

  • Sonya Van Renssen
    Journalism

    Sonja is a freelance energy, climate and environment journalist and moderator based in Brussels. She writes for Nature Climate Change, Platts, Foresight Climate & Energy, ENDS Europe, Natural Gas World, NNA Europe and others. Sonja regularly moderates high-level debates and conferences on energy, climate and environment. She won a BBC-sponsored “Young Broadcaster of the Year Award” in 2005.

     

  • Sven Becker
    Photography

    Sven is an independent photographer based in Luxembourg. His visual narratives have had a marked impact on the publications he works with such as Lëtzebuerger Land , Paperjam, Delano, City Mag. He has also been commissioned by die Welt, NidoLes jours and Bloomberg businessweek. He has documented major events in Istanbul, Turkey where he covered the Gezi Park occupation protests and the terrorist attack on New Year’s eve 2016, Myanmar and Japan in 2015, or Teheran, Iran in 2016 where he the covered cultural scene of Iranian artists, and Paris in 2019 where he documented the Gilets Jaunes movement.

     

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  • Tara Aghdashloo
    Journalism

    Tara Aghdashloo is a writer and director born in Iran. After working as a journalist and documentary maker, she completed her first independent feature documentary in 2020. Her work has appeared on BBC, Channel 4, and Manoto TV, while her essays, articles and stories have been published in The Guardian, Ibraaz, Real Life, The New Inquiry, and TANK. Tara’s collection of poetry was published in 2011. Since 2016 she has created music videos, fashion films, and is currently working on a short film.

     

  • Thomas Patterson
    Photography

    Thomas Patterson is a photographer, film producer, visual editor and creative consultant who likes to focus on people and communities in transition. Based in Portland, Oregon, he specialises in multimedia projects for editorial, corporate and non-profit clients around the world.

  • Tim Dougherty
    Journalism

    Timothy Dougherty began working as a freelance writer in 2019, focusing on environmental and global issues. Tim co-authored Timelapse: How We Change the Earth, a collection of satellite images showcasing how human activity has transformed the planet so rapidly.

    Originally from Philadelphia, Tim currently resides in San Francisco where he enjoys the outdoors.

  • Two Lands Media
    Art Direction

    Two Lands Media is a storytelling studio that creates content centered around our complex relationships to the environment. TLM was founded by Gelareh Darabi and Marc Griebel — an immigrant who fled her homeland in the Middle East as an infant and a Métis man whose family has farmed the same soil in northern Canada for four generations. In between these Two Lands is a richness of stories.

     

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  • Zainab Mahmood
    Journalism

    Zainab writes for online and print publications about the intersections between fashion, faith, climate and capitalism. She is particularly interested in teachings and practices of environmentalism in Islam and Pakistani culture and is undertaking an MSc in Environment, Politics and Development at SOAS.

  • Zoë Casey
    Journalism

    Zoë Casey is a freelance journalist based in Brussels specialising in energy, environment and climate issues. Her work has included writing about renewable energy, agriculture and the broad spectrum of EU policymaking aimed at mitigating the worst effects of global heating. Zoë also writes blog articles on how to live a zero-waste lifestyle.