Nominee
Title: Remembrance Of Green Things Past
Photographer: Adela Nistora
Country: UK

In July this year, I went to see an open-air photography exhibition, by the river Thames, in London. The images displayed were in a thought-provoking contrast with the urban environment. The old man looked at the photographs, then sat down on that bench for a long time. Over half the Earth’s people live in cities, and they hardly ever see, feel, or hear the natural world. Probably few are aware of this,
but sensible young men and women with their lives ahead of them wonder if there is any hope of future for them. Their intuitions, the summing up of evidence coming into their sense about the world, give a gloomy message. They are subconsciously haunted by images of climate catastrophe, food insecurity, water shortages, massive decline in population. I am 25 and I am afraid that by the time I will get old the world as I know it will change irreversibly.