Saturday, November 14, 2015

Juarez, Karina

Karina Juarez
Ciril Jazbec, "On thin ice"
2015

Photography is not only capturing the best moments in life, but capturing what people never see in hopes that maybe they will make a stand and try to change for the better. Global warming is an issue many people know about but never do much about it. This photo shows a man standing in the middle of a lake where it used to be a more than just water. The history behind this photo is the man on the piece of ice, Albert Lukassen, was a hunter on this land before all the ice had melted. Now this 64-year-old man is not able to hunt due to global warming because the heat caused the ice to melt. This photograph shows that we are not taking care of the earth and we can easily lose everything we once let us have everything. Albert was able to survive off the land and now the land can not provide for him. We cut down trees and pollute the air which leads to rising of sea water levels, animal extinctions and so much more. I think what the photographer Ciril Jazbec tried to photograph is to show us that we need to take care of what provides for us in order to keep surviving and not end up on thin ice.