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Project co-founder Susannah Sayler is photographing landscapes around the world that are showing signs and forewarnings of climate change. Sayler is also shooting landscapes where successes in conservation and adaptation to climate change are visible. These landscapes were selected in consultation with leading scientists and journalists, including our scientific advisor, Dr. Paul Epstein of Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, and journalist Elizabeth Kolbert of The New Yorker.
To date, Sayler has shot 11 of 14 locations planned for a book and traveling exhibition. From 2008 and onwards, Sayler will continue photographing 2 to 3 locations a year, including a return to one of the locations previously photographed.
Outreach: Reaching the Broadest Possible Audience
The Canary Project combines Sayler’s images with scientific research and other media to pursue an ambitious outreach program that includes: exhibitions at art and science museums; presentations to a variety of audiences, including schoolchildren; free licensing of images; public art installations; and the development of an Internet site that in its first six months attracted more than 45,000 unique visitors from 140 countries. In all, Sayler’s images reached an estimated one million people in 2006.
As Sayler’s efforts continue, The Canary Project will build additional links to scientific research, record interviews with sources and develop multi-media projects. We will also be continuing our efforts to expand our outreach programs, emphasizing educational tools such as DVDs, websites, Podcasts, and in-person educational initiatives in the New York City metropolitan area.
Other possible outreach and educational initiatives on the horizon: a short documentary that explores in detail the ecology of one Sayler’s chosen locations; a book (in submission now with at least one publication offer); public exhibitions and partnerships with local institutions, particularly in those countries where Sayler has photographed for the project.
Recent project activities include:
An upcoming exhibition at Colgate University (Colgate, NY ) and the Museum of Natural History (Cleveland, OH).
Exhibitions of Sayler’s photographs at Springs Preserve (Las Vegas, NV), Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), The Crane Building (Philadelphia, PA), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver, CO).
A discussion with Mayor Bloomberg, The City of New York Mayor's Fund and the NYC Office of Long-Term Planning & Sustainability to develop a series of public art installations and a parallel public education campaign.
A public service campaign, launched in July 2006, that placed Sayler’s photographs on 45 Denver city buses in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver, CO). This campaign alone has reached an estimated 379,000 people.
Plans to partner with Environmental Defense and the Goddard Institute of Space Studies to create an on-line atlas of locations showing the effects of global warming.
Extensive media coverage, including features in The New York Times, Tokion, Good Magazine, Orion, and more.
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