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These incredible photographs are prophecies for our planet

  

Category:  Photography & Art

Via:  larry-hampton  •  6 years ago  •  10 comments

These incredible photographs are prophecies for our planet

Fabrice Monteiro’s apocalyptic, stylised images expose what our planet could look like in the not too   distant future


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“The western world has lost touch with its roots, its traditions, its culture, and the sense of connection that ties it to nature,” explains  Fabrice Monteiro   when asked about the reasons behind his most recent body of work,   The Prophecy   – a series of evocative visual allegories shedding light on major current environmental concerns. “We live in this hyper-consumerist system where profit comes first, and the links to our origins and the ancestral source of life is slowly being dissipated. While making this work, I tried to rebuild and strengthen that link.”

Raised in Africa in the 80s, the Belgian-Beninese photographer grew up in a world still untainted by the now increasingly pressing issues of pollution and climate change. “Today, things are very different,” he argues. “The younger generations are faced with these concerns since birth. Their lives will be affected more than anyone else’s before them, and the ways in which we mistreat the environment is something none of us can afford to ignore anymore.” Monteiro’s faith in the youth as key actors of future change drove him to incorporate elements of traditional storytelling, magic, and mysticism into his symbolically charged frames, hoping that by connecting art, culture and politics, a sense of awareness and collective ethical concern will be ignited. “My initial idea was to create some sort of tale for kids that could be distributed in African schools and that would be based on traditional beliefs, especially animism – the belief in spirits,” asserts the Dakar-based image-maker. “Each spirit depicted appears on a different site touching specifically upon one environmental issue – plastic waste, global warming… I shot nine prophecies in Senegal, but I want to start making these images all around the world – Africa was just the starting point for an issue that affects the entire planet.”

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Larry Hampton
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1  seeder  Larry Hampton    6 years ago

monteiroanimism.jpg

 
 
 
Kavika
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2  Kavika     6 years ago

Outstanding article and photos Larry. Thanks for this.

Image result for photos of native americans and the environment

 
 
 
Larry Hampton
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2.1  seeder  Larry Hampton  replied to  Kavika @2    6 years ago

Appreciate that kavika.

I fear that we may be too late to prevent a full, global-scale environmental catastrophe; but, we have to start trying as hard as possible. 

 
 
 
Kavika
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2.1.1  Kavika   replied to  Larry Hampton @2.1    6 years ago

Yes we do my friend.

 
 
 
pat wilson
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3  pat wilson    6 years ago

Awesome photos, disturbing and cautionary !

 
 
 
luther28
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5  luther28    6 years ago

As we have a floating mass of tangled plastic and other assorted trash the size of Texas bobbing about in the Pacific, we sadly may have already arrived.

Good job. 

 
 
 
sixpick
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6  sixpick    6 years ago

Nice photos, but these are the photos that bother me.

https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20110609/garbage_around_06.jpg https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20110609/garbage_around_16.jpg

https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20110609/garbage_around_03.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/22/article-2610667-1D411E1E00000578-315_964x643.jpg

https://f1.blick.ch/img/incoming/origs3167535/6410145998-w980-h653/Muellhalde-Malediven.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QBN2n1BYkmU/Ti_Duz5Tw8I/AAAAAAAAAcw/pRE4rX93L9c/s1600/Abroad+094.JPG

http://content.animalnewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/trash_1120_14.jpg

https://echsrosario.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/pollution-around-the-world2.jpg

 
 
 
Larry Hampton
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6.1  seeder  Larry Hampton  replied to  sixpick @6    6 years ago

Great photos Six and they fit right in here.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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7  A. Macarthur    6 years ago

"NATURE IS THE ART OF GOD … "

And IMO, no one who deems himself to be "spiritual" or "religious," can be simultaneously "anti-environmentalism."

 
 

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