Conservation

My interest is in ‘conservation’ photography – this embraces ‘good news’, ‘humanitarian’, ‘psychology and anthropology’, and ‘contemporary issues’.

• Global NGOs call for action on animal agriculture in the race to save planet from climate change
  The leaders of 50 NGOs have written to Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP, as President of the COP26 climate conference being held in Glasgow this November, urging him to broker an agreement that publically recognises the damage that animal agriculture has on the environment. This single industry sector is responsible for an estimated 14.5-16.5% of human-induced ...
• If I had just one day to take photos that reflect animal welfare concerns…
  If you have one day to take photographs that concern animal welfare, you can focus on capturing images that evoke empathy, awareness, and understanding of the challenges and positive aspects related to animal welfare. Here are some potential subjects and themes you could consider photographing: Animal Shelters and Rescues: Visit local animal shelters and rescues to document ...

• Drowning Prevention – Rope Throwing
  One of the most effective ways of rescuing someone from drowning, is for someone nearby to throw the individual a rope. Ropes take two forms, plain ones and those in a throw bag. Throwing the plain rope is an international competitive event in lifesaving championships. In an aquatic environment, using a 17m rope, the record ...
• Grit
  A positive, non-cognitive, psychological trait based on an individual’s passion for a particular long-term goal, and their powerful motivation to achieve it. This “perseverance” is the driving force that allows them to overcome obstacles and challenges. Commonly associated concepts within the field of psychology include “hardiness”, “resilience”, “ambition”, “need for achievement” and “conscientiousness”. In this context, “grit” is ...
• If I had just one day to take photos that reflect animal welfare concerns…
  If you have one day to take photographs that concern animal welfare, you can focus on capturing images that evoke empathy, awareness, and understanding of the challenges and positive aspects related to animal welfare. Here are some potential subjects and themes you could consider photographing: Animal Shelters and Rescues: Visit local animal shelters and rescues to document ...
• Objectification
  Treating a person, an animal, and even (under some circumstances) inanimate objects themselves, as an object or a thing with limited rights is known as objectification. There are plenty of ways in which this is achieved; treating them as a tool for another’s purposes, as lacking the wherewithall to make up their own mind, as ...
• Re-use | Environmentally-sound living
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• Road speed tempering
  [soliloquy id="1471"] The peak age range for pedestrian road deaths in the UK is 5-14, with boys out-numbering girls roughly 2:1. There is a charity campaigning for the introduction of 20mph limits in residential areas, known as “20’s Plenty”, and voluntary signage is now available for these roads. We know that motorists respond to caption-based supplementary ...
• Smoking cessation
    78,000 people die each year in the UK of smoking-related diseases, let alone globally. Smoking by parents, primarily by the mother, is known to cause prenatal growth problems and infant mortality. The cost to society is considerable. Most countries carry health warnings on tobacco products. Text-based warnings are now considered to be totally ineffective. Those ...
• Street Harassment
  Very large numbers of women report street harassment, ranging from looks and wolf whistles, to aggressive, sexually-focused assault. In 2013, a Vancouver student, Pomona Lake, produced an image highlighting victim-blaming around skirt length. Her image was subsequently plagiarised by a German women’s group. This mini-project was inspired by Lake’s idea, but the message is targeted differently, written ...
• Towpath Portraits
  A series of portraits representing the users of towpaths and footpaths adjacent to canals, rivers and similar water-courses. In the UK, a substantial proportion of drownings each year are of these users – few of whom ever intended being in the water. When someone unexpectedly enters water, they are likely to suffer from ‘cold water shock’ ...