Jana Williams

Visual Storyteller
www.janawilliams.com
      
Stories (63)
Location: Philadelphia
Nationality: American
Biography: Jana Williams is an American documentary photographer and visual storyteller based in Philadelphia. Their practice in photography touches on ideas of spectatorship and the oppositional gaze, voyeurism and representation of the black female body... MORE
School:
Parsons School of Design
Four Seasons Examined by Jana Williams
Moore College of Art & Design
MediaXarts: Cinema for New Technologies and Environments
Private Story
Four Seasons Examined
Copyright Jana Williams 2024
Updated Sep 2022
Location Everywhere
Topics Climate Change, Collective Memory, Multimedia, Personal Projects, Policy Change, Politics, Stock, Video
In thinking about issues pertaining to climate change, I’m sadly often oblivious to how climate change affects me directly. Living in a north-east coast landlocked city, I don’t experience Ice Caps melting, extreme droughts and water usage restrictions, massive forest fires, floods due to water swelling or a loss of resources due to any of these reasons. The best way for me to consider climate change is by thinking of the issue on a more human scale. In particular, drawing from my memory of the weather in Philadelphia, which at one point had clearly defined four seasons during the 80’s and early 90’s. In approaching this topic I question, “How does our collective memory of weather conditions from our past inform our belief and knowledge of climate change today?
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