Chasing Time: An Evening with James Balog

Renowned environmental photographer James Balog joins us for this Earth Day event honouring the power of images. Following a screening of Chasing Time (40 min), which documents the culmination of his decades-long Extreme Ice Survey project, James will discuss how his groundbreaking photographic studies of melting glaciers have offered the world the most compelling visual evidence of climate change imaginable. In turn, they’ve driven him to seed hope and inspire action toward a sustainable future.

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If a single photo can inspire change, how influential are a million images? Over the course of the 15-year Extreme Ice Survey project, renowned environmental photographer James Balog and his team brought some of the world’s first and most compelling visual evidence of climate change to the global stage as he depicted the rapid melting of glaciers around the world. Thoughtfully helmed by acclaimed director Jeff Orlowski-Yang (Chasing Ice, Chasing Coral, The Social Dilemma) and first-time filmmaker Sarah Keo, Chasing Time is a meditative exploration of time and mortality, following James and his crew as they bring the decades-long project to a close, cataloguing more than one million images in the process. This documentary reunites James and the Emmy-award-winning team behind Chasing Ice to capture the end of the epic undertaking and spotlight the power of an intergenerational effort to seed hope and inspire action toward a sustainable future. In this beautiful tribute to the power of images and the importance of mentorship, the team examines the impact their efforts have made on the world.

In conversation with James Balog