Vital Impacts

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The sale runs until Dec. 31, 2021.

Vital Impacts is a 503(c)3 (pending) founded by the award-winning photographer Ami Vitale and the visual journalist Eileen Mignoni. This women-led non-profit provides financial assistance and amplifies the narrative of community-oriented organizations dedicated to protecting and preserving human and wildlife habitats. Many of these groups offer essential job training and employment in the region.

Your generous purchase of Vital Impact's fine art prints directly supports organizations across the globe, who work tirelessly to sustain our planet. Every contribution, regardless of size, aids their critical work.

We are incredibly grateful to our photographic partners, who offered their images to this sale. Their profound, global commitment to the conservation and documentation of this planet conveys the urgency of safeguarding our world.

While working with established visual artists, Vital Impacts fundraising sales elevates and fosters underrepresented photographic talent. Together, our voices cultivate tomorrow's visual pioneers.

Sudan © Ami Vitale

Vital Impacts mission is to support organizations working to protect endangered habitats and the storytellers who amplify these critical stories.

The first initiative will be a fine-art print sale featuring a hundred renowned photographers from around the world. The photographs from all the artists in this initiative are diverse but the one thing they all have in common is a shared commitment to the environment.

Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, has also contributed prints, including a self portrait, as well as two other images showing the remarkable lives of chimpanzees that she has been working to protect for over 60 years.

Self-portrait © Jane Goodall

We are also minimizing our environmental impact by offsetting our emissions, to become carbon neutral.

The sale runs until Dec. 31, 2021.

We will be supporting Big Life Foundation, Jane Goodall Institute's Roots and Shoots program, Great Plains Conservation's Project Ranger and Sea Legacy.

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Hummingbird Drinking © Anand Varma

Odin's Cove #9 © Beth Moon

Rhino © Jim Naughten

Quarry with Lion © Nick Brandt

Emperor Express © Paul Nicklen

lores © Ronan Donovan

Serengeti © Stephen Wilkes

Fireflies © Tim Flach

Ornithography #040 © Xavi Bou

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By Virginia Hanusik

Publisher : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

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In South Louisiana, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, water―and the history of controlling it―is omnipresent. Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana glimpses the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and the fallout of the fossil fuel industry―past, present, and future. The book sustains our physical, mental, and emotional connections to these landscapes through a collection of photographs by Virginia Hanusik. Framing the architecture and infrastructure of South Louisiana with both distance and intimacy, introspection and expansiveness, this work engages new memories, microhistories, anecdotes, and insights from scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners working in the region. Unfolding alongside and in dialogue with Hanusik’s photographs, these reflections soberly and hopefully populate images of South Louisiana’s built and natural environments, opening up multiple pathways that defy singularity and complicate the disaster-oriented imagery often associated with the region and its people. In staging these meditations on water, life, and land loss, this book invites readers to join both Hanusik and the contributors in reading multiplicity into South Louisiana’s water-ruled landscapes.

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Rawsht Twana: Twana’s Box

By Rawsht Twana

Publisher : Fraglich Publishing

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Twana’s Box' can be described in many ways: a journey through a photographer’s rare archive, documenting the Kurdistan region of Iraq from 1974–1992; a son’s quest to find his lost father, who was murdered by a military regime; a young man’s way to piece together the fragments of a scattered family in a scattered culture; the becoming of a photographer who, through the stories of others, starts to understand his own identity in times of war. 'Twana’s Box' is not only the photo book that holds a selection of Twana Abdullah’s archive; it is a unique insight into a time and place in a region that has since completely transformed. Rawsht has spent years piecing together his father’s negatives and stories. His archival work inspired him to become a photographer himself, working for Metrography – the first independent Iraqi photo agency – before immigrating to Europe. ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, Kurdish/Arabic/English

Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering

By Akinbode Akinbiyi

Publisher : Spector Books

2024 | 252 pages

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Whether in Bamako, Berlin, London, Lagos or Durban, British photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi (born 1946) creates black-and-white street scenes that function as visual metaphors, ruminating on cultural change, social exclusion and colonialism’s effect on urban planning.

Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm

By Grace Wales Bonner

Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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A deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression, curated by the acclaimed London-based designer
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