Photo: Harmit Kambo
People directly affected by injustice are the true experts on their situation; not politicians, academics or top-down charities. Challenging inequalities through participatory photo activism is the starting point for the Environmental Justice Photo Project (EEJP), where communities themselves lead the documentation on the relationships between poverty, inequality and climate change affecting their lives. Treading the ground between anti- poverty and environmental movements, environmental justice is a concept and social movement that seeks to address the reality that environmental burdens (e.g. mining, extraction, dumping, high-emitting industry etc.) are inequitably distributed and often concentrated in areas of socio-economically marginalized. Through photography, EJPP attempts to help build a picture to explore and spark discussion on environmental justice in the UK within the context of global climate change.
EEJP, partners and the communities involved will soon launch whereby the stories generated serve as a basis for other communities to share their stories, highlight the importance of weaving stories on the social implications of environmental destruction and to highlight the possibilities for action which can be taken. Watch http://diyeducation.wordpress.com/
