Chasing Time

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, cataloging 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.

Guest Bios

James Balog
For nearly 40 years, photographer James Balog has broken new conceptual and artistic ground on one of the most important issues of our era: human modification of nature. To reveal the impact of climate change, James founded the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) in 2007. It is the most wide-ranging, ground-based photographic study of glaciers ever conducted. Balog’s photographs are housed in dozens of public and private art collections and have been extensively published in most of the world’s major picture-oriented magazines, including National Geographic, Life, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times Magazine.

Sawyer Duval
Sawyer Duval is a senior in high school who has been involved in legislative actions for years, including organizing over 20,000 students throughout the state of Washington to advocate for recycling legislation and meeting with elected officials to lobby for groundbreaking producer responsibility bills. Sawyer feeds his passion for a sustainable future as a leader of a student environmental club in his high school. He plans to pursue a degree in education to become a teacher.

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