Uncertain.

In these last few years, we’ve heard, read, and uttered this word repeatedly.  The global pandemic, social upheaval, glaring inequality and the climate crisis. Uncertain is a word we use when we don’t know how to predict an outcome. It’s a word we use when the future feels unknowable. And because art has the capacity to hold time—the past, present, and future, often simultaneously—we turn to it for hope.

The Environmental Photographers Collective raises questions around how climate change impacts people and ecosystems through naturally occurring forces of nature that have become systematically altered in a rapidly warming climate. The Collective, featuring Marion Belanger, Dana Fritz, Margaret LeJeune, Judy Natal, Martina Shenal, and Terri Warpinski formed in March 2020 - bringing together a nationally recognized group of artists, educators, curators, and writers who all create work focused on environmental concerns including climate change, environmental justice, and the transition to a post human centered world. Through their individual work, and their interactions as a Collective, they address this landscape of uncertainty through their art.