Picture Climate Justice announced by Photography 4 Humanity and Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance

Mar 01, 2023
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Empowering everyone to capture climate justice images to share globally

BOULDER, CO, March 1, 2023 -- Picture Climate Justice is a global initiative created by United Nations Human Rights supported Photography 4 Humanity and Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance, to empower people around the world at a grassroots level to capture images of people and the planet being impacted by climate change - then instantly upload them to a platform where they will be on display for the world to see. 


By encouraging and empowering everyone around the world to take pictures of climate justice issues with their phones, 365 days a year, Picture Climate Justice seeks to engage and empower people to document what is actually taking place on the ground in local communities around the world. Through a crowd sourced photo platform that displays images on Instagram, Picture Climate Justice provides a public forum for people to capture and post images that convey that climate change is a human rights crisis, to help democratize and humanize the issue so everyone will have the ability to be seen and heard.


By highlighting compelling imagery - illustrating courage, despair, hope, injustice, and compassion, in ways small and large, Picture Climate Justice encourages the public to personally get involved and to take a stand for climate justice. 


“The average person feels hopeless when it comes to climate change, as they don’t feel their voices are heard over those of the special interests that seek to continue the status quo.” Said David Clark, Founder and CEO of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance. “With Picture Climate Justice, we provide a voice to those who all too often have none.  If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the average person now has the ability to add their voice to the global dialogue through their lens.” 



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United Nations Human Rights

United Nations Human Rights represents the world’s commitment to the promotion, protection, and realization of the full range of human rights and fundamental freedoms set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Through the voice and the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a staff of 1,800 in 103 countries, the Office aims to make human rights a reality in the lives of people everywhere.  For more info visit: www.ohchr.org


Photography 4 Humanity

Photography 4 Humanity is an international initiative that calls on photographers around the world to bring to life the power of human rights through their images. The annual Photography 4 Humanity Global Challenge is a unique call to action for amateur and professional photographers alike, to submit images for a global competition where, each year, photos from the Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize Recipient and the Top 10 finalists are exhibited by global partner United Nations Human Rights at the UN headquarters in New York each year on Human Rights Day. For more info visit: www.photography4humanity.com


Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance

The Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance is an international initiative created to take on climate change as the human rights crisis that leading scientists and human rights advocates, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, have declared it to be. Since Right Here, Right Now was launched at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland (COP26) by United Nations Human Rights and supporters led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Right Here, Right Now has emerged as the largest public/private climate partnerships to promote climate justice in the world. For more info visit: www.righthererightnow.global




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