Beijing

Three Shadows Photography Art Centre

September 24 – December 28, 2011

COAL + ICE premiered at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in 2011. The groundbreaking documentary photography exhibition featured the work of 30 photographers from China, the United States, Malaysia, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Norway, Germany and the United Kingdom, whose work visually narrates the hidden chain of actions triggered by humankind’s use of coal. The exhibition’s photographic arc moves from deep within the coal mines to the glaciers of the greater Himalaya where greenhouse gasses are warming the high altitude climate. As these mighty glaciers melt at an accelerated pace, the great rivers of Asia that flow from the Tibetan Plateau into the oceans are disturbed, and the lives of billions of people downstream are disrupted.

Major support for COAL + ICE at the Hôtel de Pontalba in Paris was provided by Salesforce. Additional support by John S. Wadsworth, Jr., John A. “Mac” McQuown, Nion McEvoy, Thomas and Margot Pritzker, and The Arthur Ross Foundation.