Visualizing Earth

Photographer

Stephen Harrison

Concept

Stephen Harrison's Visualizing Earth is a touring exhibition project with a mission to invoke inspiration and enhance awareness of our environment with art, science and music comprising the engaging vehicles through which awareness is facilitated. Visualizing Earth is composed of a series of photographically based images viewed in classical gallery style that depicts the origins of earth, the enchanting diversity of life and culminates in the impact of mankind. These photographic art works constitute the first part of the exhibition and are followed by an ensuing educational component concerning the subject of global climate change.

Included in the project is a museum bound book as a commemorative volume, an interactive web site and a film based on the images in the exhibition with live orchestral music written by composer Peter Madlem. The exhibition is planned to tour to host cities in 2009.

Biography

Stephen Harrison has a MD in medicine from Yale, a Ph.D. in engineering from Purdue and 40 years experience in photography. In 2000, he wrote and published "Whispered Prayers: Portraits and Prose of Tibetans in Exile" and produced a companion film: "Whispered Prayers" that won three international film awards. In 2007 he created the 23-minute film for "Island of the Blue Dolphin" accompanied by an original score by composer Peter Madlem commissioned and performed by the Santa Barbara Symphony. Since 2004, Harrison has been creating images for his project "Visualizing Earth", which addresses the relationship of mankind to nature with emphasis on global climate change.

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