American - Photographer | July 15, 1952 -
I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.
James Balog
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It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.
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Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.
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I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.
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The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.
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The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.
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At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.
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Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.
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I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.
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You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.
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