Yann Arthus-Bertrand is an extraordinary photographer and environmentalist. The 62-year-old Frenchman is author of a large number of photographic books and film documentaries featuring his breathtaking shots of the planet, usually shot from a helicopter. His exhibit, Earth From Above, will run May 1 through June 28, 2009 in New York City’s Battery Park. It will be a colossal outdoor exhibit.
Free-to-the-public, day and night, experiential, and green by design, the 8-week exhibition will feature over 150 images from around the globe captioned by sustainable development experts. With an inspiration pavilion, walkable world map, and exhibit for the blind, Earth From Above will bring into focus our planet’s fragility to deliver a poignant, hopeful and educational message.
50% of the installation will feature new images taken over the last two years during the production of Yann’s feature film, Home.
Since its Paris premiere in 2000, Earth From Above has been seen on every populated continent by more than 130 million visitors in over 120 cities including London, Tokyo, Berlin, Seoul, Beirut, Moscow, Sydney, Mexico City, Montreal, Stockholm, and Reykjavik.
His photographs are stunning and awe-inspiring and should not be missed. Living in the Bay Area, I am happy to hear there are plans for the exhibit to be in San Francisco in 2010 (hurray!)
Arthus-Bertrand website for Earth from Above features a video on sustainable cattle ranching (screen shot above) and Montana’s LaCense Ranch. The video is really worth watching.
Sustainable cattle ranching the way LaCense does it is a subject dear to the heart of my good New Mexican friend, Peter Holter. Peter runs Holistic Management International, a terrific non-profit that works to create healthy, sustainable grasslands. True sustainable cattle ranching is rare and the mass-produced beef of the feedlot is the rule. Too bad for the cows and our environment. With the help from the work of organizations like Peter’s, maybe we can have a better world after all.
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