Kavya Bhat (Queens, New York) was originally inspired by 2023 winner Ellen Chen (Rye, New York) and created Up Close, a diptych of two interconnected, yet opposite, climate futures. “Both long for something the other has,” Bhat states, “and yet both are suffering.”
Read MoreRuby Hutcheson (Tallahassee, Florida) began Mother Nature with a handmade bodysuit constructed from trash and detritus that she collected from the roadside on my walks home from school. The resulting visceral photographs convey “the emotions of sadness and disgust that I think we should feel about the way we have treated our planet.”
Read MoreIsabella Campos (Winter Springs, Florida) depicts coral reefs transitioning from vibrant and healthy to bleached and dying in Changing Corals, a large sculpture meticulously created solely through manipulating paper.
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