Climate Change at High Altitudes

While the United Nations General Assembly discusses climate change, Ian Teh and David Breashears will present their photography from the frontiers of this global environmental crisis, in an evening discussion with Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations.

Ian Teh, one of ChinaFile's two inaugural Abigail Cohen Fellows, has worked extensively in China where his photography has focused on environmental, social and political issues. In 2013 the Open Society Foundations selected him to exhibit his work on China's Yellow River at its "Moving Walls" exhibit and in 2001 he won the Emergency Fund grant from the Magnum Foundation.

David Breashears is a mountaineer, photographer, and filmmaker. He co-directed and produced the first IMAX film shot on Mount Everest, and reached the summit of Everest for the fifth time in 2004 when shooting his film Storm Over Everest. Breashears is Executive Director of GlacierWorks. He has been using photography to document the effects of climate change on the glaciers of the Himalaya.

Both Teh and Breashears' photography featured in COAL+ICE, the multimedia photography exhibition produced by Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations.

This event will be the premiere of Teh's newest body of work, Traces: From the Frontlines of Climate Change Along China's Yellow River, which will be on exhibit at Photoville on Brooklyn's waterfront from September 18 through 28.