CreateCop27 Winners

On January 15, 2022, Peru experienced its worst ecological disaster in recent history. More than 11,900 barrels of oil from Repsol were spilled. The spillage left fishermen with marine fauna, merchants without bathers, and carriers without passengers. Lizeth Lozano Palomino’s multimedia piece ‘Orilla Negra’ brings awareness to the continued high level of toxicity that resulted from the oil spill.

@orillanegraperu

Aakash Malik’s ‘Escaping Inferno’ depicts the blazes of a wildfire around the Yamuna Ghat, Delhi. The locals, of all ages, collectively try to save their homes. “These people aren’t only attempting to stop a fire heading toward their homes, they are also trying to prevent it from killing the hope for a healthier planet tomorrow.”

@looktowardsthesky

In his work ‘They Lived Here’, Avijit Ghosh submerges images taken in Sundarbans in seawater to emulate the impact of flooding. Sundarbans is the world’s largest mangrove delta and has been experiencing a rising sea level of 0.3cm a year. ‘They Lived Here’ is a reminder of the erased identities and displacement of lives that result from the destructive floods.

@mravijitghosh

Filmmaking duo Roni Niu and Patrick Carlo Bangit – otherwise known as Bagels – draw inspiration from the phrase “Too much of anything is never good” for their experimental narrative film ‘How Long Have We Been Doing This?’.  In it, Bagels addresses current environmental issues by exploring uninhabitable environments on Earth through manga in motion.

@bagels_loopingbread

‘Fragments of a River’ forms an anthropological study of the river Thames. It aims to reveal new ways of seeing the river as much as it contemplates environmental issues of plastic pollution and ideas such as the Anthropocene. The photographs depict sculptural arrangements of discarded objects found along the river bank of the Thames, during low tide. Through the repeated act of sculpting, and also drawing on the aesthetics of Dutch still life painting, the artist forms fragmented pieces of litter into delicate compositions worth looking at.

@angelablazanovic

The idea of waste is a modern concept which distinguishes objects and materials as something valuable and invaluable, and where the boundary of value is always subjective and shifts with society. Through the ongoing ‘Waste Mythology’ project, Woo Jin explores ways storytelling could challenge and shift our value system and the idea of waste. Mainly drawing her inspiration from East Asian mythology and folk culture, Woo Jin reframes our perception of everyday objects, suggesting unexpected stories and encounters with objects that are old and found, creating modern mythological narratives.

@woojinstudio

25-year old Miranda Varo aims to incentivise her audience to the degradation and loss of ecosystems that are being lost now. Placed in the Colorado River, the main body of water that nourishes the north of Mexico, Varo says “My city exists because of the river and now is gone.”El Colorado carries not only water but the memories and hopes of the ones that decided to build their homes and their refugees around it. “My parents had fun in the river, they swam there, they laughed there and now I can only imagine it,” Varos said. We can not change the past, there is no “ctrl-z” button, but we can strive for a better future.

@mirandavaroo

Due to global warming and the melting of the Himalayan ice-caps, river erosion and flooding of Bangladesh has now become a yearly catastrophe affecting millions of people from the overflowing of the river Padma, Jamuna. As floodwaters spread they can threaten lives, inundate properties and businesses, destroy belongings, damage vital infrastructure and prevent access to essential public services. Niloy’s submission aims to highlight all of these factors in hopes of raising awareness to the larger picture at hand. “Every year new families are homeless, dreams are shattered and lives are ruined.”

@san.studio008