French photographer Fabien Barrau is making waves (no rising-sea-level pun intended) with his digital artwork that envisions famous landmarks around the world in the future, when the climate crisis has consumed the planet. It's super cheery.
OK, so it may be slightly doom-and-gloom and scary, but we all know art is the most powerful way to express urgency, and Barrau's images certainly bring attention to an important point; if we don't work to combat climate change, the world will not survive.
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Using a combination of drone photography and Photoshop, Barrau's series "News From The Future" includes these images that are "taken from the future", which he's returned from to warn us all of the dire consequences that lie ahead. In 2119, the impacts of global warming are imagined to have been a lot more severe than we can even imagine now, with the melting ice-caps raising the sea levels phenomenally, and humans "are just a memory."
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In this work, we see the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Colosseum in Rome under extreme desertification.
Chicago's towering skyscrapers are derelict, with the city being covered in jungle and abandoned, in 2323.
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The Statue of Liberty in New York is almost submerged by the rising sea levels, and L'Arc de Triomphe in Paris is also entirely submerged.
Don't ask how half of Paris is underwater and half is in the desert, it's not the point.
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Barrau's been working in photography and design for over 30 years, and his other work leans heavily into environmentalism, too, often using Photoshop and stock imagery to create the pleading faces of wildlife among the landscapes being impacted the most by climate change.
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Barrau's Instagram caption for the below creation of the burning fires in the Amazon recreated as the face of a Macau, says the image was "edited with Photoshop and sadness".
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If you're passionate about climate change and want to create art that inspires the world to take action, apply for funding for your next piece of creative work against Climate Change, here!
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