Neil A White

Thursday, 7 January 2010

The four Greenpeace activists who made a peaceful non violent protest have been released after spending 20 days in prison.

They impersonated world leaders and gate crashed a heads of state dinner at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Two of the activists dressed in black tie and posed as representatives of an imaginary country called Mother Earth. When walking along the red carpet just behind Hilary Clinton (US secretary of state) they unfurled banners saying: "Politicians talk, leaders act".

Have a look at this short film from Greenpeace which tells their story.

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Climate change activists erect a large banner on Parliament Square outside Parliament in central London reading "Rage Against COP15".

It reflects the anger and frustration at the final result at the UN Copenhagen Conference and the Christmas number One by Rage Against the Machine - Killing in The Name.

©Neil A White

Saturday, 19 December 2009

Took this picture in the early hours of this morning inside the Bela Centre where the UN Climate Change Conference is taking place.

The talks where still going on.

The picture in a way kind of sums it all up for me.

Monday, 14 December 2009

Still sorting the pictures from Copenhagen.

If the person I spoke too on the march (red trousers) on Saturday about the political parties during the speech's please get in touch it would be great to hear from you. I also have some pictures you may like to see.

neil@neil-white.co.uk

+44 (0) 79844 30754

Neil.

Tuesday, 8 December 2009

Last night I went to a private viewing of Earth, Art of a changing world at Royal Academy of Arts.

The exhibition is about climate change with some work dealing with it directly while others are just pieces of art. The work exhibited was very diverse with photography, video installations, paintings, sculptures etc.

Some of my favorite pieces are shown below and of course I was drawn more to the photography and video installations.

At time it’s moving, direct and tackles climate change head on, then beautiful more sedate although some pieces didn’t quite seem to fit into the subject matter.

It’s well worth a visit;

Until 31st January 2010

Edward Burtynsky

Tue Greenfort

Kris Martin

Antti Laitinen

Monday, 30 November 2009

On Saturday 5 December 2009, ahead of the crucial UN climate summit in Copenhagen, tens of thousands of people from all walks of life will march through the streets of London to demonstrate their support for a safe climate future for all.

Part of a global series of public actions, The Wave will call on world leaders to take urgent action to secure a fair international deal to stop global warming exceeding the danger threshold of 2 degrees C.

Hope to see you there.

www.stopclimatechaos.org

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Here are a few pictures from the third forest for the ancient woodland project.

This wood is under threat from a golf course expansion in the north of England.

I will be going again in December to capture some more tree pictures and do portraits and interviews.

Trying to make the wood pictures interesting is a real challenge I’m still unsure of what the final out come will be.

Monday, 9 November 2009

On the 17th October 2009 over 1000 climate change activists converged at one of Britain’s biggest coal-fired power stations: Ratcliffe-on-Soar near Nottingham.

Their aim was to shut down the power station by entering and taking over the site. As the activists tried to breach the fence some classes broke out with the police. The protesters, under the banner the Great Climate Swoop, include supporters of three pressure groups - the Camp for Climate Action, Plane Stupid and Climate Rush. Ratcliffe-on-Soar was chosen as the activists’ target in an online vote following the Climate Camp held in London in August.

They want all coal-fire power stations to be decommissioned and environmentally friendly energy options used.

Wednesday, 7 October 2009

Last night I attended the preview of the Prix Pictet 2009 and launch of the book – Earth

The exhibition included shortlisted work by twelve of the world’s leading photographers, one of whom will receive this year’s prestigious Prix Pictet photography prize for environmental sustainability.

The Prix Pictet is an annual search for photographs that communicate powerful messages of global environmental significance under a broad theme. This year that theme is ‘earth’.

Photographers short listed for the £60,000 prize are Darren Almond, Christopher Anderson, Sammy Baloji, Edward Burtynsky, Andreas Gursky, Naoya Hatakeyama, Nadav Kander, Ed Kashi, Abbas Kowsari, Yao Lu, Edgar Martins and Chris Steele-Perkins.

It is an amazing exhibition and do try and catch it if you can - Purdy Hicks Gallery, London from 5 to 10 October.

Below are some of my favorite pictures;

Friday, 25 September 2009

Some of my work and a interview has been included in a feature (Sacred Planet) about environmental photography in the Digital Photographer magazine.

If you get the chance please have a look.

Monday, 14 September 2009

Just arrived back from a short trip to Finnmark.

The vastness, remoteness and beauty of the landscape located in the extreme north east of Norway has once again left me longing to return.

Not to mention the light.

Sunday, 6 September 2009

Climate Camp 2009

Wednesday, 26 August 2009

Climate Camp started today with a swoop from various locations throughout London onto a secret site in the city. The climate campers were sent a text message with details of the site location which is Blackheath common near Greenwich.

It was quite something to see the camp take shape so quickly and everyone working together.

The camp will last for 6 days.

For more info have a look at the camps website;

www.climatecamp.org.uk

Tuesday, 18 August 2009

Video: Fish, Chinese Campaigner on Climate Change in China

Have a watch of this short film from the recent Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise xpedition to Petermann Glacier in far northwestern Greenland.. It is about a Chinese Greenpeace campaigner who is known as "Fish".

I think it’s really powerful and beautifully shot.