There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for… — James Balog Copy Share Image
The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus… — James Balog Copy Share Image
We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by… — James Balog Copy Share Image
I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception. — James Balog Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves an essential spiritual and ethical question: Are we the kind of people who take everything for ourselves and… — James Balog Copy Share Image
You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times. — James Balog Copy Share Image
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted. — James Balog Copy Share Image
It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things. — James Balog Copy Share Image
The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture… — James Balog Copy Share Image
I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me… — James Balog Copy Share Image
When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees,… — James Balog Copy Share Image
I've got at least two major project ideas that I've been chewing on for several years in my head and I've been trying to… — James Balog Copy Share Image
