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ENVIRONMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR


This year The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management's Environmental Photographer of the Year competition received over 1,400 international entries for the categories Changing Climates, World of Difference, Quality of Life, The Natural World, and Under 21. A selection of the images is currently being shown at the Apothecary Gallery in Hammersmith, London. The overall winner was Abhijit Nandi, whose image is shown above.



Abhijit Nandi (image above)
"The woman is returning home from a paddy field in a remote village of West Bengal after a long day at work. As a farmer’s wife, she has to manage her home, child and help in the field. She never thought a village woman could be the subject of a photograph, so when I told her that I would like to take a picture, she just laughed. The mother and child, the green paddy field and the blue sky after rain fill me with happiness, hope and joy. There is also a strong suggestion of the renewal of life, with the cow being connected deeply to the fertility cult in Indian mythology."

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CRADLE-TO-CRADLE
A phrase invented by Walter R. Stahel in the 1970s and popularized by William McDonough and Michael Braungart in their 2002 book of the same name. This framework seeks to create production techniques that are not just efficient but are essentially waste free. In cradle-to-cradle production all material inputs and outputs are seen either as technical or biological nutrients. Technical nutrients can be recycled or reused with no loss of quality and biological nutrients composted or consumed. By contrast cradle to grave refers to a company taking responsibility for the disposal of goods it has produced, but not necessarily putting products’ constituent components back into service.


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