Powerful climate change exhibit opens at DC's Kennedy Center
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The new climate-inspired photography exhibit at the Kennedy Center called Coal + Ice, runs through April 22.
A man submerged up to his chin in brown, murky floodwaters and a group of miners covered head to toe in black soot -- these are a few of the images featured at a new climate-inspired photography exhibit at the Kennedy Center called Coal + Ice, which opened on March 15.
"I had young kids, and I was trying to think about the kind of world they'd be living in. I felt this increasing responsibility to try to address climate change," said Gideon Mendel, a 63-year-old photographer based in London, whose work is featured in the exhibit.
The display, running through April 22, features a spread of photos and videos taken across the globe and documents the harmful effects of human activity on the planet. It showcases the work of more than 50 photographers and videographers from around the world and the varying ways climate change manifests.
Coal + Ice comes to Washington, D.C. as reliance on fossil fuels has taken center stage amid the war in Ukraine. As the global market faces more significant uncertainty due to the volatile geopolitical landscape and dragging impacts of COVID-19, climate change has been pushed to the back burner.
