Daniel Beltrá • Our Warming World
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Shards of ice float in a seasonal meltwater lake atop the Greenland ice sheet, August, 2014.
A ship drifts amidst a heavy band of oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, May, 2010
Man-made fire burns recently cleared rainforest 20 kilometers south of the Amazon River, approximately 40 km southeast of Manaus in October 2018.
Aerial view of a log sorting yard carved from the Amazon rainforest near Altamira, Para state, Brazil, September, 2013.
Amazon rainforest canopy east of Manaus, Brazil, in September of 2013.
Brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) covered in crude oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon wellhead spill wait to be cleaned at the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana, June, 2010.
Oil Spill #12 Daniel Beltrá, 2010, digital chromogenic print, 40″ x 60″, © 2010.
A ship drifts amidst a heavy band of oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, May, 2010.
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Our Warming World asks us to consider the landscape as a place we have altered, all while striving to coexist within the natural world. Rather than merely recording the changes in the environment, this body of work seeks to enhance our awareness of the intersection of Nature’s power and fragility, asking us to reconsider our view of the planet and how we inhabit it.
The photographs show the vast scale of transformation our world is under from human-made stresses. The unique perspective of aerial photography helps emphasize that the Earth and its resources are finite. By bringing images from remote locations where human and business interests and nature are at odds, the work aims to instill a deeper appreciation for nature and an understanding of the precarious balance our lifestyle has placed on the planet.
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About the Artist
Born in Madrid, Spain, Daniel Beltrá is a photographer based in Seattle, Washington. His passion for conservation is evident in images of our environment that are evocatively poignant. The most striking large-scale photographs by Beltrá are images shot from the air. This perspective gives the viewer a wider context to the beauty and destruction he witnesses, as well as revealing a delicate sense of scale. After two months of photographing the Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill, he produced many visually arresting images of the man-made disaster.
Over the past two decades, Beltrá’s work has taken him to all seven continents, including several expeditions to the Brazilian Amazon, the Arctic, the Southern Oceans, and the Patagonian ice fields. For his work on the Gulf Oil Spill, in 2011, he received the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award and the Lucie Award for the International Photographer of the Year – Deeper Perspective. His SPILL photos toured the world independently and as part of the Prix Pictet exhibitions. In 2009, Beltrá received the prestigious Prince’s Rainforest Project award granted by Prince Charles. Other highlights include the BBVA Foundation award in 2013 and the inaugural “Global Vision Award” from the Pictures of the Year International in 2008. In 2006, 2007, and in 2018 he received awards for his work in the Amazon from World Press Photo. Daniel’s work has been published by the most prominent international publications, including The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Le Monde, and El Pais, amongst many others.
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