PRESENT
The present clash ~ Against the Problem
MIGUEL JERONIMO
When the machine knows, 2022 | Text-to-image AI
Activism for natural preservation and countering the major sources of pollution and our ecosystems' destruction is the fight of our generation. Despite overwhelming evidence of the importance of forests to regenerate the air we breathe and maintain the world as we know it -- its fauna and flora, our own livability -- humanity as a whole seems to be slow to act and many still actively oppose change.
When the machine knows, 2022 | Text-to-image AI
In this series, Miguel Jeronimo uses a text-to-image artificial intelligence tool to propose questions about the future of the nature surrounding us and the very acts that undermine it. Feeding it prompts on illegal logging and poachers, the wildlife disappearing, a world where all the trees are gone. As if to ask, if people don't care what do machines think about it? Considering the outputs given by the AI come from massive amounts of data from the internet, the resulting images can be seen as well as a conclusion for what our collective knowledge already knows but, unfortunately, fail to act upon.
When the machine knows, 2022 | Text-to-image AI
Miguel Jerónimo is a freelance photographer and exhibition curator, artist and writer. From Lisbon, Portugal, based for more than six years in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Passionate about working for NGOs in meaningful projects, collaborating with other artists and organizing exhibitions with impact. Currently collaborating with Pulitzer center to organize the exhibition 'Pray for Prey' in Cambodia and the social media campaign #ShowMeYourTree.
@migueljeronimophotographyVINCENT ROMERA
About merit birds and other collateral damage, 2022 | photograph
“Merit release” is a real problem of wildlife conservation in Southeast Asia and in Cambodia it is very common to see cages containing birds intended to be sold and then released in order to bring positive karma points to the releasers. Moreover, the promiscuity in the cages increases the risks of transmission of viruses and pathogens between species, so there is also a real public health problem. At a time when the erosion of biodiversity is reaching records all over the planet, it seems more than essential that these practices stop as soon as possible!
About merit birds and other collateral damage, 2022 | photograph
“I have been an ornithologist and naturalist for 15 years, and I started photography at the same time. After working for several years in France as a naturalist, I am now a project manager specialized in biodiversity assessments for the NGO HUMY. We work on conservation projects of high biodiversity ecosystems mainly in the "Biodiversity Hotspots" in the intertropical zone. HUMY, through its local partners (NGOs), works on 16 sites in 6 countries (Benin, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Indonesia and Cambodia). I am currently conducting naturalist inventories in the Phnom Kulen National Park (Siemreab - Cambodia) for our local partner ADF NGO.”
Vincent Romera
About merit birds and other collateral damage, 2022 | photograph
DAHLIA PHIRUM
Deer, 2022 | Graphite on paper, 35x47cm
Bull, 2022 | Graphite on paper, 35x47cm
Peacock, 2022 | Graphite on paper, 35x47cm
"Poem, Mother: Other beings and me are here because of trees. She's like a mother to all us be. She gifted air and shelter for free, not even to mention literal Money. We coexist along-side each other for centuries. But for awhile now, she's incapable to keep up with our greed. And trust me, it is not pretty for human needs."
Cambodian Contemporary Mixed-Media artist Dahlia Phirun delivers her imagination to the world through her illustration and her use of mixed media in crafts, textiles, and sculpture. As an award winner of the Rosalie Borowsky Belkin Award for fibers in Philadelphia 2019, Dahlia is a professionally trained fibers artist and mainly implements textile approaches to her installation. Her deep interest in surrealism allows her to see the world uniquely. Dahlia creates her work based on human-body hybrids with other beings in nature and inanimate objects to produce surrealist figurative art that can provoke the thought of playfulness but dark and sensual.
Lean more about Post-pandemic wildlife trade threatens human and forest health
ANDY BALL & MIGUEL JERONIMO
In 2021, the Cambodian government approved a 299 kilometers power line through Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. Not only does the line threaten the largest tract of lowland evergreen forest in Southeast Asia, it also threatens a forest home to some 250,000 Indigenous people and one of the country's largest carbon stocks. Experts have proposed two alternative paths around the sanctuary that would cost between 1.5 and three times less, whilst also leaving the forest intact.
Read the full story, supported by the Pulitzer Center
Power through the people, 2022 | Map & neon light
Andy Ball is a Cambodia based photographer and videographer with an interest in covering stories that revolve around the cross-section between society and the environment.
Miguel Jerónimo is a freelance photographer and exhibition curator, artist and writer. From Lisbon, Portugal, based for more than six years in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Passionate about working for NGOs in meaningful projects, collaborating with other artists and organizing exhibitions with impact. Currently collaborating with Pulitzer center to organize the exhibition 'Pray for Prey' in Cambodia and the social media campaign #ShowMeYourTree.