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International Wildlife Film Festival features photographer’s view of climate disasters

April 13, 2019 /

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Photographer James Balog says that he simply wanted to celebrate the beauty of nature in his work.

Instead, he’s shifted course, and now says he feels an “urgency to bear witness” to what he calls a collision between nature and humankind, the fifth element besides the ancient idea of water, air, fire and earth.

Balog, who’s traveled the world shooting natural disasters and melting glaciers for National Geographic and other major publications, gives viewers some insight into the situations he’s encountered in “The Human Element.”