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Africa: Helena Christensen Urges Governments to Take Action At Rio+20
Oxfam International (Oxford)
press release
Oxfam Global Ambassador and photographer Helena Christensen today published a booklet of her photographs which she is sending to government officials and heads of state attending next week’s UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).
The booklet is the culmination of four years work with Oxfam in which Helena traveled to Peru, Nepal and Kenya to document the impact of climate change on people’s lives and their ability to produce food.
The booklet entitled “Meltdown” features forty two photographs in color, black and white, and in Polaroid format. Photos from Helena’s first two trips to Peru and Nepal have been exhibited at the United Nations in New York, in Washington, London and at the climate change talks in Copenhagen in 2009.
Helena said: “I witnessed the impact of glaciers melting at an alarming rate in my mother’s native Peru, the aftermath of flooding in Nepal and met families in Kenya struggling to cope with a severe drought which put millions at risk of starvation.
“My photos tell the story of people like Elizabeth, a nomadic Kenyan farmer who lost all her animals in the drought and now struggles everyday selling charcoal to feed her eleven children and grandchildren. It is families like this that despite contributing the least to the global climate crisis, are bearing the brunt of the impact.”
Helena said; “The men, women and children in my photographs deserve to live beyond the lens and be remembered by our governments as lives rather than numbers. My images are intended to remind those discussing the fate of our planet that the future is not yet set in stone.
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