Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet

This book is an expansive presentation of international contemporary photography, video, and new media art addressing the challenges presented by global change.
The book shows the works of 34 leading international artists, focusing on the ways in which photographic, video and digital art reflects on our relationship, as individuals and as a society, to the natural environment around us. An important aspect of this presentation is how individual artists are using their work to address the impact of human behaviour on the natural environment. The purpose of the book is to provoke, through visual art, new ways of thinking about how we see our role within the natural environment and our connection(s) to the rest of the planet – and how this affects our future. Changing Circumstances looks at ways in which artists and scientists are re-visioning our relationship with the earth and space.
The artists and artworks confront a broad range of issues that are challenges to the future of the earth. These include climate change, water, energy and food production, population, natural resources, waste, and migration. Many of the works present atypical uses of visual art and photography to address these changes with new media, moving image, performance, and text.

The book Changing Circumstances is a collaboration between FotoFest International and Schilt Publishing.