Hard Rain in Helsingør
Fresh from a successful display in the centre of Copenhagen during December's UN Climate Conference, the Hard Rain exhibition is now on the Danish Museum of Science and Technology, Helsingør until 11 April 2010. The exhibition was inaugurated on Tuesday 19 January by explorer and writer Hjalte Tin.
Hard Rain India tour
in association with British Council India
The Hard Rain exhibition was on display at Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore. Inaugurated by actor-turned-environmentalist Suresh Heblikar on Wednesday 6 January, and continuing to Sunday 17 January.
Mark Edwards' Hard Rain winter tour kicked off with presentations in Kolkata on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 December, and in Mumbai on Monday 21 December.
The tour concluded with Hard Rain presentations in New Delhi and Chennai on Saturday 9, Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 January.
“Not just a display of barrenness, pain, loss and shame, but an imagery of harsh beauty and hope that calls for immediate action… Hard Rain is inspired by and affords an apocalyptic vision of the future. It urges the spectator to act in a small way, to avert any further disasters in the planet, reminding society of the social evils it is plagued by.”
Deccan Herald
Hard Rain at the UN Climate Conference
BBC News: Bob Dylan song adopted by Copenhagen climate summit
Information Denmark: watch an interview with Mark Edwards at the exhibition in Kongens Nytorv
Hard Rain exhibition
Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen
6 to 19 December 2009
presented by the United Nations Environment Programme and Hard Rain Project
The Hard Rain exhibition was unveiled at the UNEP Climate Maze in Kongens Nytorv on Sunday 6 December, introduced by UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner and Copenhagen Mayor of Technology and Environmment Klaus Bondam.
Go to the Hard Rain Copenhagen gallery
Read more about the UNEP Climate Maze
UNEP's Climate Express train rolled into Copenhagen at 11pm on Saturday 5 December with Hard Rain creator Mark Edwards on board, along with other environmental coimmunicators and policy-makkers. Find out about its journey and watch a short film on the UNEP website.
Mark Edwards receives Royal Photographic Society award
Mark Edwards has been awarded the Royal Photographic Society's prestigious Terence Donovan Award. Picking up the award on Thursday 19 November, he dedicated it to Bob Dylan and the Hard Rain team, including the many fellow photographers who have contributed to the project.
Hard Rain at St Martin-in-the-Fields church, Trafalgar Square
The Hard Rain exhibition at St Martin-in-the-Fields ran from Sunday 25 October 2009 to 7 January 2010.
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Exhibitions are planned for Imperial College London, Amsterdam and Melbourne. Details to follow soon.
For more information, contact events@hardrainproject.com
Listen again to Mark Edwards talking about Hard Rain with Mike Williams of the BBC World Service's One Planet programme.
Watch One Planet's YouTube slideshow from the St Martin-in-the-Fields exhibition.
A message of support from Gordon Brown:
Hard Rain is both a tremendous achievement and an incredibly troubling book to read – an unrelenting catalogue of burnt and barren landscapes, shrunken ice caps and devastated, dislocated lives. Page by page it conjures up the terrible consequences of unchecked climate change – a human catastrophe that is quite unprecedented in our history, and one that we can no longer afford to deny.
Already, climate change and the competition for natural resources are destroying livelihoods, creating refugees and stoking conflicts right around the world. To allow this disaster to deepen further would be an unforgivable injustice – for whilst it is the richest countries that have caused this degradation, it is the poorest who are suffering its worst effects.
So if Hard Rain is a photographic elegy it is also an impassioned cry for change. Forceful, dramatic and disturbing, it is driven by what Martin Luther King called “the fierce urgency of now” – and I believe the call for a truly global response to climate change is an idea whose time has finally come.
Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister of Great Britain
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