Image: Pal Hermansen, After The Trip, 1998. Earth Photo 2022

 

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Created in 2018 jointly by Forestry England, The Royal Geographical Society and Parker Harris, Earth Photo is highly-respected in the field of environmental and climate engaged photography.

Forestry England manages and cares for the nation’s 1,500 woods and forests, with over 363 million visits per year. As England’s largest land manager, we shape landscapes and enhance forests for people to enjoy, wildlife to flourish and businesses to grow. 

We are continuing the work we began over 100 years ago to ensure the nation’s forests are a world-class sustainable living treasure that help us respond to the challenges we face in society. Forests and woodlands play a vital role in tackling the twin climate and biodiversity crises, storing carbon, reducing flooding, cooling urban environments, creating wildlife habitats and providing people with clean air and inspiring spaces to explore and support wellbeing. We plan, plant and care for these environments thinking beyond our lifetimes so that the nation’s forests will thrive for the next century and beyond.

Our multidisciplinary arts programme established in 1968 plays a key role in rewilding the imagination through collaboration, partnership, research, engagement and production by bringing together all areas of our work at the intersection between art, science, design, biodiversity and ideas www.forestryengland.uk/climate-action.

The Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers) is the learned society and professional body for geography. Formed in 1830, our Royal Charter of 1859 is for 'the advancement of geographical science'. Today, we deliver this objective through developing, supporting and promoting geographical research, expeditions and fieldwork, education, public engagement, and input to policy. We aim to foster an understanding and informed enjoyment of our world. We have a thriving Fellowship and Membership and award the professional accreditation 'Chartered Geographer’. The Society holds the world's largest publicly-accessible private geographical Collections, and photography has been at the heart of the Society’s work for over 130 years. John Thomson FRGS, the first photojournalist of modern times, led the Society’s use of documentary style photography and brought awareness of the people and places of the Far East, and later street London, to nineteenth century audiences for the first time. Earth Photo draws on the Society’s photographic heritage of over 500,000 images held within its Collections, from the earliest daguerreotype image of 1851 to the latest work by contemporary photographers. www.rgs.org

Jaguar Land Rover has worked with the Society on fieldwork and expeditions for more than 40 years, providing vehicles, expertise, funding and training, alongside supporting outreach projects. In recent years this support has been at the forefront of innovation in enabling the use of geo-related technology in remote locations, supporting the development of geographical knowledge, as well as capacity-building by working in partnership with locally-led projects. The Society sits alongside Tusk and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement as one of three humanitarian and conservation partners that Jaguar Land Rover supports to make positive change. Jaguar Land Rover vehicles enable photographers to capture extraordinary images that help make a difference to our understanding of the natural world and the Society is delighted to have the support and involvement of Jaguar Land Rover with Earth Photo for 2023. We believe photography and film have a profound international influence and that images speak powerfully to viewers and convey meaning and emotion beyond the barriers of language. Developing our partnership by looking to the future and the changing ways in which vehicle technology will help documentary photographers and filmmakers to achieve their goals marks a new chapter in our long-term relationship with Jaguar Land Rover. Visit the Jaguar Land Rover website for more information on the company’s Reimagine strategy.

Parker Harris is one of the leading visual arts consultancies in the UK, specialising in the expert creation and project management of visual arts projects spanning all disciplines and scales. Clients range from trusts and foundations, SMEs and multinationals to charities, arts organisations and individual artists. Earth Phot was developed in partnership with Parker Harris, RGS and Forestry England. www.parkerharris.co.uk