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<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Bradon Smith <<a href="mailto:btls2@cam.ac.uk">btls2@cam.ac.uk</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">13 January 2008 18:39:14 GMT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:cah73@cam.ac.uk">cah73@cam.ac.uk</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>lecture by professional landscape photographer Nick Cobbing</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear Cat,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I just thought that I'd let you know about a forthcoming lecture by the professional photojournalist and photographic artist Nick Cobbing (<a href="http://www.nickcobbing.co.uk">www.nickcobbing.co.uk</a>). I am co-convenor of the Cultures of Climate Change research group at CRASSH (the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) - we meet on alternate Monday evenings for talks by artists and academics on the subject of representing climate change through art.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For the first session of this term we are delighted to be welcoming Nick Cobbing. Nick's work "focuses on the landscape, people’s relationship to it and to each other" with a particular recent concentration on the Arctic. He has just returned from the recent Cape Farewell expedition to Greenland (<a href="http://www.capefarewell.com">www.capefarewell.com</a>), one of his photos from which was chosen by TIME magazine in their Pictures of the Year 2007. His work "Surface Tension" - stunning photographs of the Greenland ice-cap from the air - has won two major awards and was widely published. Nick will present a slide show of his photographs and talk about his experiences documenting the process of climate change through photography.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I feel sure that this lecture will be of great interest to many of your members. The event is free, and open to those outside the university as well as within it, and will be a fascinating insight into the working practices of a professional photojournalist, and the role of the photographer in raising awareness of this critical issue. I have summarised below the important information - I would be very grateful if you could circulate this information amongst your members, and indeed to any other groups/individuals that you think would be interested.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Many thanks,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Bradon Smith</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">*Lecture by professional landscape photographer Nick Cobbing*</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Monday 28 January 2008, 5-6.30pm.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Seminar Room, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane (map: <a href="http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/centre/crasshmaps.html">http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/centre/crasshmaps.html</a>)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The "Cultures of Climate Change" group is delighted to welcome Nick Cobbing for the first session of this term. Nick is an acclaimed photojournalist and photographic artist whose work "focuses on the landscape, people's relationship to it and to each other". He has just returned from the recent Cape Farewell expedition to Greenland (<a href="http://www.capefarewell.com">www.capefarewell.com</a>), one of his photos from which was chosen by TIME magazine in their Pictures of the Year 2007. His work "Surface Tension" - stunning photographs of the Greenland ice-cap from the air - has won two major awards and was widely published. Nick will present a slide show of his photographs and talk about his experiences documenting the process of climate change through photography.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Nick's lecture will last approximately 40 minutes, allowing plenty of time for questions, and for an informal wine reception. The event is free and open to all. We look forward to see many of you there.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/climatechange.html">http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/climatechange.html</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Contact Bradon Smith (<a href="mailto:btls2@cam.ac.uk">btls2@cam.ac.uk</a>) to be added to the CCC mailing list, or for more information.</div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>