The New York Times: Carbon’s Casualties will open at Summerhall Corner Gallery on Thursday 25^th July in conjunction with events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and Beyond Borders International Festival, which will include a striking open air exhibition at Traquair House.

Since 2015, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times photographer Josh Haner has worked across the globe documenting the pressing and wide-ranging realities of climate change. Following on from the 2018 collaboration between the New York Times and Beyond Borders, audiences this year will be invited to experience Haner’s award-winning visual narrative, which starkly illuminates the loss of our planet’s vast heritage, with The New York Times: Carbon’s Casualties exhibition at Summerhall, Edinburgh, curated by New York Times director of photography Meaghan Looram. A series of complementary events and talks at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and Beyond Borders International Festival will accompany the exhibition throughout the summer.

The exhibition combines the drama of drone footage from the air with the intimacy of still images from the ground, with 20 images intricately exploring the multifaceted consequences resulting from a warming world. The New York Times brings this selection of striking  images and drone footage to a full series of curated events and public installations in order to help audiences fully grapple with the changing landscapes of the twenty-first century, the natural and human worlds intimately intertwined.

From chronicling communities disappearing alongside the surroundings that once sustained them, to natural ecosystems on the brink of crisis, to disappearing sites of irreplaceable cultural history, Haner highlights the grave repercussions of a shifting world as natural ecosystems and ways of life are vanishing. The views from the sky, illustrating how different environments around the world are broadly impacted and reshaped, are coupled with still images to bring to light the personal, and sobering, stories mirrored across continents.

“We’re examining quite a dire issue with climate change, but the way we’re showing it is alluring and beautiful,” says Looram. “Photography allows us to draw people into stories that might be difficult, or easy to ignore, to get them to care about a tough issue.”

Acknowledging the challenge of engaging readers on climate change with alluring imagery without obscuring the underlying message, Haner added,“it can be problematic if you over-aestheticize the impact of an issue and the sad, real-world impact it has on people across the world. You want to draw readers in, but not create something beautiful at the cost of the reality beneath it.”

Integral to the photography exhibition will be a series of events as part of a wider conversation about the vast impact of climate change on cultural heritage, the importance of digital storytelling technologies, and the responsibility of the media to cover the issue unflinchingly..

These discussions will bring an array of New York Times reporters, global climate commentators and personal perspectives, including Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist John Haner, The New York Times’s director of photography Meaghan Looram, acclaimed Australian novelist and campaigner Tim Winton, Energy at the End of the World author Laura Watts, and author and journalist Fred Pearce, who will take part in an event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 11, and president, International of The New York Times Company, Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, who will appear at the Beyond Borders International Festival at Traquair House on August 25 alongside other guests.

Founder of Beyond Borders Scotland Mark Muller Stuart said that showcasing the exhibition in Scotland would provide a platform for people to engage with the crucial concerns surrounding the many varied consequences of climate change around the world.

“Photojournalism is a powerful medium through which to examine the wide-ranging impact of climate change around the world, and with this exhibition and discussion series, we seek to provide diverse opportunities for discussion and exchange about this pressing global issue”

Events in this series

Exhibition

The New York Times: Carbon’s Casualties

Summerhall Corner Gallery

Edinburgh

Friday 25^th July to Sunday 27^th October

Admission is free

From Carbon’s Casualties to Climate Solutions at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Panel discussion featuring Josh Haner, Tim Winton, Laura Watts and Fred Pearce

Edinburgh International Festival Garden Theatre

Sunday 11 August, 19:30 -21:00

Tickets available

The New York Times: Carbon’s Casualties at the Beyond Borders International Festival

Panel discussion featuring Stephen Dunbar-Johnson and other guests

Saturday 24^th August to Sunday 25^th August

Traquair House

Innerleithen EH44 6PW

Tickets available

A selection of images from  The New York Times: Carbon’s Casualties exhibition will be on view in an outdoor exhibition in Traquair House’s Walled Garden throughout August, and at the Beyond Borders International Festival, on the 24^th-25^th of August.

Notes to Editors

**Images from the exhibition may be available for one-time media use if used in conjunction with events listings or articles which explicitly reference The New York Times: Carbon’s Casualties exhibition. Please contact maria.case@nytimes.com for high resolution files and licensing information.**

About The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company is a global media organization dedicated to enhancing society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news and information. The Company includes The New York Times, NYTimes.com and related properties. It is known globally for excellence in its journalism, and innovation in its print and digital storytelling and its business model. Follow news about the company at @NYTimesPR.

About Beyond Borders Scotland

Beyond Borders Scotland is an Edinburgh and Scottish Borders-based NGO dedicated to fostering peace and greater understanding between peoples, small nations, and different cultures around the world. Throughout the year they run a number of projects at home and abroad, culminating in August with the Beyond Borders International Festival For more information, visit www.beyondbordersscotland.com