MAPS is a collective effort proposing new ways and approaches of storytelling to address the world's changing environment and societies.

”After The Fallout” VR film by Dominic Nahr and Sam Wolson will be featured in the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, in the ”New Frontier” category.

In March 2011, an earthquake caused a tsunami and a meltdown at the Daiichi nuclear power plant. The devastating consequences filled the communities in Fukushima with fear of the intangible and split Japan in a distinct before and after.

More here : www.sundance.org/blogs/news/2020-new-frontier-announced-festival

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Greta Thunberg, who has become the symbol of the fight for climate justice, was elected Person of the Year by the TIME Magazine. Matt Stuart’s photograph was selected to illustrate her fight and that of many young people.

Caption : Young protesters with Extinction Rebellion take to the streets of London in October 2019.
Matt Stuart / MAPS

Read more : time.com/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg/

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From urban riversides to remote fishing villages to bustling coral reefs, life in the Philippine archipelago is deeply interdependent: the survival of all is inextricably intertwined not just with the sea, but also with the worsening climate crisis, as the third most vulnerable country to its disastrous effects. Philippine fisherfolk live with the devastating paradox at the heart of the Anthropocene: the communities who are least responsible for causing the worsening climate crisis are also among the most vulnerable.

Caption : A girl watches the sunset from Baseco, Tondo, home to a sprawling slum community and the largest district in Manila. Here, where the Pasig River meets Manila Bay, much of the megapolis’s trash flows into the Philippine sea.
Hannah Reyes Morales / MAPS
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See more of "Cities Made of Water" by Hannah Reyes Morales on MAPS’ website.
www.mapsimages.com/works/cities-made-of-water/

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Matthieu Gafsou's latest project, "Solastalgie", addresses eco-anxiety - an existential distress caused by the environmental changes that lead to mass extinctions, natural disasters and their social consequences.
For an increasing number of people, especially the young, the collapse of our civilizations now appears inevitable.⠀

Images from Gafsou’s photographic essay were published in the latest issue of Fisheye Magazine

See more here : www.fisheyemagazine.fr/rdv/cest-dans-le-mag/depasser-langoisse-du-futur/

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Humanity’s impact on the Earth is now so profound that a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – needs to be declared, according to an official expert group who presented the recommendation to the International Geological Congress in Cape Town, in 2016.

Simona Ghizzoni’s latest work ‘Rêve Géologique’ is a collection, a reconstruction of the scientific evidence from the beginning of this new era. It is now featured on Maps’ website.
www.mapsimages.com/works/reve-geologique/

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