Climate Visuals passes 15,000 users!
Climate Visuals now has 15,000 registered users!
Since we launched in 2016, we’ve been building our image library, widening our evidence and growing our user base and we’re very excited to have passed this significant milestone.
Users come to Climate Visuals from over 170 countries around the world, and from all kinds of sectors and scales; from hyperlocal community groups, through editorial publications and educational institutions to international NGOs and communicators – and we’re glad to be a trusted resource for them all.
Our image library now has nearly 4,000 photographs of climate change and the environment, including over 1,500 that are freely available for non-profit, educational and editorial use – all backed by our evidence base and understanding as to what makes for engaging climate imagery.
We’ve got exciting news coming soon, including many new images and website developments. In the meantime, here are some recent highlights:
New images
We released the first part of our black carbon image collection (look out for more images soon!), along with others on heat pumps, air pollution, car-spreading, energy poverty in Europe and other stories across the UK.
These all exemplify our evidence base and guidance on effective imagery and are available to download for free non-profit, educational and editorial use.
Images from the Climate Visuals library have been published around the world including by The Times, The Guardian, New Scientist, Carbonbrief, Mongabay, UNFCCC, Greenpeace and many others.
New guidance
We’ve launched new guidance resources to help users make the most of the potential of engaging, effective photography – of climate litigation and climate linked migration.
These resources are informed by conversations across wide-ranging sectors and geographies and contain practical tips for anyone working with photography to put into practice in their own work.
New evidence
We collaborated with a cross-disciplinary team from Exeter and Oxford universities on a new paper “How Does GenAI “See” Climate Change: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities of GenAI for Climate Visual Journalism” looking at how rapidly developing generative AI tools visualise climate change, and what this might mean for journalists and communicators.
Keep an eye out for more on this soon!
Public exhibitions
Our images have been exhibited in multiple public exhibitions, including at the WHO’s Second Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health in Cartagena, Colombia, and in King’s Cross in London as part of Earth Fest. Visitors could walk among the images highlighting many stories from around the world and learning more from the accompanying caption information.
Heading for the next 5,000 users
All of these highlights join our other resources, including our 7 Climate Visuals Principles, our Visualising Climate Change and Ocean Visuals collections, and our wider evidence base. As we look towards the next 5,000 users we’re always keen to hear from anyone who we can help make the most of compelling photography – that might be through new or archival images, guidance resources or research. Please get in touch to see how we can work together!
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