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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR CONSERVATION
The
idea:
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to promote Nature conservation through high quality & high aesthetical photos in
cooperation with the major local conservation trusts, to help the organisations in their educational projects and in local and global environmental politics.
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to explore new ways of combining nature photography and other forms of art.
Images and other visualisations form powerful instruments. They show, they are emotive.
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the photographers are present
on location through short intensive photographic fieldwork actions, to give evidence of the high value of the natural habitat and of specific nature aspects in the region.
To minimize the costs of the trip the finishing and selecting of the raw material will be done afterwards.
The idea is born on the Caribbean island Bonaire and the first project, on Bonaire, could be realised quite fast thanks to a good cooperation between the initiators and several nature conservation organisations on the island.
The intention is to realize similar projects on other islands. Our international group of 5 nature photographers,
specialized in different disciplines, was formed easily. The
idea of the project correspond to our personal goals as photographers in nature preservation. We
hope strongly that beautiful photos make people sensitive to nature
conservation.
Members of the group:
Leendert van Driel / painter, initiator of SHAPE, host, Netherlands/Bonaire
Henkjan Kievit / photographer, co-founder of SHAPE, Netherlands
Christian König / photographer, France
Marjolijn Lopes Cardozo / photographer, Netherlands
Miro Zumrik / photographer, Slovakia
Rostislav Stach / photographer, Czech Information
about the members on the members page. |