This weeks Links We Like are all about using photography to create a meaningful story. OBCR constantly encourages our open-enrollment students, Girl Scouts, and leadership students to share their photos with us as a way to document their personal experience with OBCR and continuously share it with others. Read on to see how photographers such as Wade Davis, James Balog, and JR are using their photos to tell stories and raise awareness on world issues.

 

Wade Davis is a photographer that is continuously traveling to the most obsolete places. In his video, Davis not only discusses his photography but how he discovered the Tahltan people in Northern Canada and the industrial proposals that are threatening their homeland. His experience sparked his images of Northern Canada, and led him to then share them with others in an attempt to educate the world about the Tahltan people and encourage others to join the effort to help save the Tahltan people’s home.

Whether he had to propel himself up sheer cliffs or down into glacier valleys, James Balog and his camera crew did whatever it took to properly document the shrinking glaciers all over the world. Balog spent months baring the harsh weather in order to get the photography needed to create his film Chasing Ice. Read more about how Chasing Ice became a sensation all over the world and gave an enticing first hand look on the melting glaciers all over the world.

There are many different photographers now that not only are taking captivating images but also using their photography to engage people and intertwine larger issues. French artist JR is one of those. After finishing his project “28 Millimeters, Women Are Hero’s,” he made over-sized prints to be used as the roofs of homes; depicting women as hero’s protecting the home during rainy seasons. Check out JR’s and the other photographers here and how they are telling different stories using their own photographic techniques.