Jun
82025
12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Distant Early Warning is a documentary project which combines art, science, and journalism, highlighting that climate change is one of our biggest threats. Award-winning photographer and documentary filmmaker Louie Palu will install a series of photographs frozen in large ice blocks in the Photovillage. The melting ice blocks will gradually reveal photographs made around the Arctic.
Presenters: Louie Palu Miranda Massie
Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
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Louie’s project “Distant Early Warning” presented in partnership with the Climate Museum and Photoville, explores the evolving geopolitics of the Polar region, the history of the Arctic, its connection to the Franklin Expedition and climate change. Palu made photographs in the high Arctic over ten-years while on assignment. Many of the photographs are from some of the most inaccessible locations on the planet. Palu will be present at the unveiling, and will speak about the context of his installation and his experience photographing in the Arctic. He will discuss the aesthetic, conceptual and editorial impacts of the work with Miranda Massie from the Climate Museum. Palu’s work in the Arctic was supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Pulitzer Center.
Miranda Massie is the founding director of the Climate Museum. She left an award-winning career in social justice litigation to launch the Museum, which in 2018 had its breakout year of public programming and in late 2024 secured a permanent home. Massie has pioneered an approach to community engagement with climate that blends culture and activism, successfully empowering visitors in the large majority who are worried about climate change but unsure what to do. She is recognized as a national and international leader at the crossroads of culture and climate change.
The Climate Museum is the first museum in the United States dedicated to climate change. The Museum mobilizes the power of arts and cultural programming to invite visitors into climate engagement and agency and to transform our public culture for action at scale. The Museum offers free, interdisciplinary, participatory programs that connect constituents to a culture for climate action with a focus on justice, including exhibitions and installations, pop-ups, youth programs, interactive dialogue events, performances, workshops, and more. The Museum is currently scaling up to a year-round home near Hudson Yards opening in 2029.
Founded in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY, Photoville was built on the principles of addressing cultural equity and inclusion, which we are always striving for, by ensuring that the artists we exhibit are diverse in gender, class, and race.
In pursuit of its mission, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open air photography festival in New York City, a wide range of free educational community initiatives, and a nationwide program of public art exhibitions.
By activating public spaces, amplifying visual storytellers, and creating unique and highly innovative exhibition and programming environments, we join the cause of nurturing a new lens of representation.
Through creative partnerships with festivals, city agencies, and other nonprofit organizations, Photoville offers visual storytellers, educators, and students financial support, mentorship, and promotional & production resources, on a range of exhibition opportunities.
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