We, our children and grandchildren now have the very distinct possibility of watching things we love be lost. Climate Change is upon us and this miraculous galactic ball we call home is in peril. The immediacy of climate change, for myself and many others, has caused the simple act of looking/seeing to miraculously illuminate a vibrating panorama of aesthetic/emotional triggers. Everything has the potential of striking our bell. Everything has the possibility of becoming a lost loved one in a cherished photograph — a shoreline, a cottage, an animal, an insect, a smile, a shoe, a taste.

Juror for “earth” will be Paula Tognarelli, executive director and curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography.