Edward Morris & Susannah Sayler
Documentary Style, Landscape, Light & Shadow, Photojournalism, Text
Sayler / Morris Website
The Canary Project
A History of the Future
http://www.history-of-the-future.com/
Susannah Sayler’s Faculty Page at Syracuse University
http://vpa.syr.edu/directory/susannah-sayler
Nancy Keefe Rhodes, “Q & A on the Canary Project”, Syracuse University Magazine, Summer 2012
http://sumagazine.syr.edu/2012spring/orangematters/canaryproject.html
Edward Morris: Art & Media Fighting Climate Change, The Great Immensity, December 6, 2011
http://thegreatimmensity.org/2011/edward-morris-art-media-fighting-climate-change/
John A. Light, “ ‘A History of the Future’: Capturing the World to come”, Need to Know, PBS, January 24, 2011
Susannah Sayler: The Canary Project, Boston Society of Architects, Exploring Design lecture series, Boston Public Library, May 19, 2010
Erika Knudson, “Art Outside the Studio”, Teaching & Learning Magazine, Indiana University, Fall/Winter, 2009
http://www.indiana.edu/~tandlpub/story.php?story_id=123
Sayler / Morris, A History of the Future, 2005 - ongoing
This series was shot in Peru in 2008. Each landscape tells a different part of a story -- the story of Peru’s vulnerability to drought and shrinking glaciers due to climate change. The images are part of a large body of work titled A History of the Future. The initial aim of this work was to photograph places throughout the world where scientists study the impacts of climate change, vulnerability to future impacts and/or attempts to mitigate and adapt.
At first, we were drawn to the stillness in these places that contrasted so profoundly with a sense of an invisible violence. Later, we realized that that this violence was not really in the image itself. The meaning of these images depends on their context within a larger discourse about climate change – a discourse with many registers: scientific, journalistic, activist and artistic. In the aggregate, the photographs form an archive and can be positioned as evidence. Viewed individually, the images form a blank stare. How we meet that stare depends on our changing perceptions of Nature.
Displayed in diverse venues, the photography is frequently combined with other elements, such as archival objects, research, video or mixed media installation. This photography project led to the creation of a larger arts collaborative called The Canary Project which has produced works, involving more than 30 artists, that deepen public understanding of climate change.
Sayler / Morris for the Canary Project, Glacial, Icecap and Permafrost Melting XLVII: Cordillera Blanca, Peru, 2008.
Sayler / Morris for the Canary Project, Glacial, Icecap and Permafrost Melting LI: Cordillera Blanca, Peru, 2008.
Sayler / Morris for the Canary Project, Glacial, Icecap and Permafrost Melting L: Cordillera Blanca, Peru, 2008.
Sayler / Morris for the Canary Project, Glacial, Icecap and Permafrost Melting LIX: Lake Paron, Peru, 2008.
Sayler / Morris for the Canary Project, Glacial, Icecap and Permafrost Melting LVI: Quebrada La Agonia, Peru, 2008 (6_Peru.jpg) Glacial, Icecap and Permafrost Melting LIX: Lima, Peru, 2008.
Sayler / Morris for the Canary Project, Glacial, Icecap and Permafrost Melting LIX: Lima, Peru, 2008.
Sayler / Morris for the Canary Project, Glacial, Icecap and Permafrost Melting LVII: North of Lima, Peru, 2008.
Sayler / Morris for the Canary Project, Glacial, Icecap and Permafrost Melting LIV: Carabayllo, Lima, Peru, 2008.