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Subhankar Banerjee

Subhankar Banerjee founded ClimateStoryTellers.org in August 2010. Subhankar is an Indian born American photographer, writer and activist. Over the past decade he has been a leading international voice on issues of arctic conservation, indigenous human rights and global warming, and over the past five years he has also been focusing on forest deaths from global warming. His photographs and writing have reached tens of millions of people around the world through exhibitions, publications and public lectures.

Subhankar is currently editing an anthology titled Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2012). His blog posts regularly appear in: ClimateStoryTellers.org, AlterNet, Common Dreams, Counter Currents, Huffington Post, TruthOut and YubaNet.

During 2011 his photographs will be shown in a solo exhibition Where I Live I Hope To Know at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth (May 14–August 28), and in group exhibitions Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe (April 8–May 28) and The Altered Landscape at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno (September 24, 2011–February 19, 2012). He will deliver the 2011 Rapaport Lecture in Contemporary Art at Amherst College on March 31, an Artist Talk at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art on June 9, a keynote speech during the Species, Space and Imagination of the Global 2011 biennial conference of The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (June 21–26) and will participate in a panel during the Art+Environment conference at the Nevada Museum of Art (September 29–October 1).

Subhankar received an inaugural Cultural Freedom Fellowship from Lannan Foundation, an inaugural Greenleaf Artist Award from United Nations Environment Programme, a National Conservation Achievement Award from National Wildlife Federation, a Special Achievement Award from Sierra Club, a Housberg Award from the Alaska Conservation Foundation and was named an Arctic Hero by Alaska Wilderness League on December 6, 2010—50th anniversary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Subhankar will be Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and a Fellow at the Forbes College of Princeton University for Fall term 2011. You can visit his personal website by clicking here.

How the New Mexico Anti–Nuclear Campaign Achieved A Major Victory
By Subhankar Banerjee, February 23, 2012 | Read Story  


BPing the Arctic, Again — Fast Tracking Shell’s Dangerous Drilling
By Subhankar Banerjee, August 15, 2011 | Read Story  


“Another Kind of Fukushima?” Asks Whistleblower Robert Gilkeson
By Subhankar Banerjee, July 18, 2011 | Read Story  


Las Conchas Fire Woke Us Up—Let Us Now Stop The Plutonium Bomb Factory
By Subhankar Banerjee, July 1, 2011 | Read Story  


New Mexico Is Burning With Potential For Nuclear Contamination
By Subhankar Banerjee, June 28, 2011 | Read Story  


Who Is Tim DeChristopher?
From Coal Belt, Through Mountain Trails, On Route To Obama’s Prison Cell
By Subhankar Banerjee, June 16, 2011 | Read Story  


Subhankar Banerjee Conversation with Dr. Helen Caldicott
Presented by IfYouLoveThisPlanet.org, April 11, 2011 | Listen Online  


Tim DeChristopher Is Convicted: We’re Blowing This Moment, Too
By Subhankar Banerjee, March 10, 2011 | Read Story  


India Must Free Binayak Sen Immediately
By Subhankar Banerjee, March 7, 2011 | Read Story  


From Toilet to Planet: A Brief Journey of Survival
By Subhankar Banerjee, February 10, 2011 | Read Story  


Extreme Weather Report From Home: The Thong Will Drop
By Subhankar Banerjee, February 3, 2011 | Read Story  


House Rhetoricians v. Santa’s Reindeers
By Subhankar Banerjee, January 19, 2011 | Read Story  


We Have the Technology—Let’s Go
By Subhankar Banerjee, December 8, 2010 | Read Story  


After The Arctic Spill—Shell, Palin and Obama
By Subhankar Banerjee, December 6, 2010 | Read Story  


Cancún Opens for GREEN Business But REDD Will Destroy Indigenous Forest Cultures
By Subhankar Banerjee, November 29, 2010 | Read Story  


Thankful for Polar Bear Habitat But Shell Must Not Go There
By Subhankar Banerjee, November 26, 2010 | Read Story  


STOP: Another One Hundred Years of Fossil–Digging in North America?
By Subhankar Banerjee, November 15, 2010 | Read Story  


Youth Across North America Are Fighting For Their Future Climate
By Subhankar Banerjee, October 4, 2010 | Read Story  


Shell’s “Let’s Go” Ad in HuffPo
Why We Mustn’t Allow Shell to Go ... to America’s Arctic Seas
By Subhankar Banerjee, September 16, 2010 | Read Story  


Climate Educators Wanted
By Subhankar Banerjee, September 13, 2010 | Read Story  


Letter to Young Americans
By Subhankar Banerjee, September 9, 2010 | Read Story  


Senator Barbara Boxer –– Her Reelection –– Our New Climate Movement
By Subhankar Banerjee, September 3, 2010 | Read Story  


Could This Be A Crime?
U.S. Climate Bill Is Dead While So Much Life On Our Earth Continues To Perish
By Subhankar Banerjee, August 26, 2010 | Read Story  


BPing the Arctic?
Will the Obama Administration Allow Shell Oil To Do to the Arctic What BP did to the Gulf?
By Subhankar Banerjee, May 25, 2010 | Read Story