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Alessandro Vecchi is a photographer deeply interested in climate change and well aware of its connections with economic policies, more specifically energy policies, and with social dynamics like migrations.

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Professional photographer Beth Buglione first picked up a camera at age 10 and instantly fell in love with the medium. She graduated from the University of Oregon school of Journalism and worked for a variety of photojournalism jobs, learning and appreciating the camera’s power to tell the stories of humanity.

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Brooke Anderson is a climate justice organizer and social movement photographer based in Oakland, CA. Brooke became involved in environmental justice at 17 years old when she helped shut down two toxic medical waste incinerators that were poisoning working class communities of color in her hometown in Champaign, IL. She then spent over a decade as a union and worker rights organizer, where she saw workers face disproportionate economic and ecological impacts of climate change.

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Emma Cassidy is an editorial photographer who creates powerful images to support environmental and social justice campaigns that she cares about. Having worked for environmental organizations for many years, Emma has shown dedication to the environment through her campaign work, activism, and her photography. She believes that a photograph has the potential to change history and influence the way people see the world. Emma has photographed for many environmental and social justice organizations, including Tar Sands Action, DC Rising Tide, Rainforest Action Network, Students for a Free Tibet, Clean Wisconsin, and Greenpeace.

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Jehad Saftawni is a photographer and videographer from Gaza, Palestine. His work humanizes the issues that many Palestinians in Gaza face in ways that foreign journalists have only been able to attempt.

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Josh Lopez is a photographer dedicated to supporting the environmental justice movement in the US and internationally, through his stunning visual work. Though having documented many actions within the environmental movement, he is most notable for his role with the U.S. Tar Sands Action taking place in August-November of 2011.

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Marlin Olynyk is a photographer and videographer whose strength is telling stories. Although new to bringing his narrative to the environmental movement, Marlin is excited to be one of the newest members of Survival Media Agency and help support the climate justice movement with the best tools he has available.

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Robert van Waarden is Co-Coordinator of the Survival Media Agency and is a Dutch-Canadian photographer and storyteller. His work has been exhibited at the UN in New York, on Trafalagar’s Square in London, Ioannina, Greece and numerous other venues around the world. He strongly believes that positive and empowering imagery will help solve the climate crisis and visual communicators are essential to building a just, thriving world.

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Shadia Fayne Wood  is a media director and a photographer coordinating media makers around the world in the fight for climate justice.  She has managed photography teams for all major actions in the DC area on the Keystone XL pipeline, for all the national summits on climate change in the US Power Shift ‘07, ‘09, ‘11, and ‘13, as well as coordinated the media teams for the Youth Delegation at UN Climate Negotiations in ‘08 and ‘09.