The current state of the climate is in a deteriorating state therefore an increased awareness for the issue is pertinent. With the understanding of the interconnectivity between climate change and industrialised pollution and the ever-increasing societal reliance of visual stimuli it is a necessity of photography to raise awareness through representing the issue. ‘A photo can speak a thousand words’ is true however to do so in a single frame limits and dismisses the overall scale of the issue. There are many implications and ethical considerations that are important within representing the issue, especially with the idea that ‘photographing pollution is often a conversation with the invisible’ (Asselin, 2018, 543), for which needs further investigation in order to conclude if photography is able to represent the current crisis.
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