Title of Photo: HOPE: Portray the Climate Change Impacts, Raise the Health Opportunities.
Author:
AMSA Brawijaya University, INDONESIA
Athaya Febriantyo Purnomo
Knowing health impacts of climate change is tangible thing to do considering the diseases do not even choose who you are. Thus it is necessary for society to be aware of what kind of risks they are heading on. Giving awareness to society would be effective if the message is meaningful for understanding and touching public’ s deepest heart about the issue at the same time. Photography would be ideal for that aim. I would like to portray the direct and visible impacts of climate change to environment in the forms of barren tree and brownish meadow, portrayed one of the living creature was dying. Also philosophically, those things would be metaphors for health impacts of climate change in society.
Photo also depicted hand like lifting barren tree which represented our effort as awared society to uplift the opportunities to handle health issues according to climate change. Moreover, I also showed a form of optimism through this photo. Although there was a wide unmodifiable risks existed, represented by brownish meadow, but there was always modifiable rsk that we can optimize to achieve health recovery, analogue to the hand lifting tree. So potential message would be, we are still have a hope to prevent the medical issues, tackling the risks, and mitigate the health impacts by our effort to handle the climate change. Therefore, this photo showed meaningful understanding and beautiful touch philosophically to effective shot on public awareness.
Photograph was taken in Merese Hill, Lombok, Indonesia. Preferred in 10R.