Katie Orlinsky

Visual Storyteller & Contributing Photographer
    
Sailing Along the Front Line of Climate Change
Location: North America
Nationality: American
Biography: Katie Orlinsky’s photography tells stories about the everyday lives of people in extreme situations, capturing the intimate moments of daily life behind larger global issues. For the past six years a large portion of her work has focused on... MORE
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Sailing Along the Front Line of Climate Change
Copyright Katie Orlinsky 2024
Updated Jun 2018
Topics Photography, Photojournalism

Climate change has transformed the Arctic, and will continue to do so at an ever-increasing pace. Meanwhile, Arctic tourism is booming as frozen oceans melt into safe waterways for massive, polluting cruise ships. How do you balance the demand for Arctic tourism, people's desire to "see it before it's gone" without further damaging such a vulnerable ecosystem? 

In Norway, they may have found an answer. Sailing is the most sustainable way to explore the Arctic’s fragile seas, and now regular people, not just professional sailors and adventurers, are experiencing the region without damaging the earth on a polluting cruise ship.

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