with Beate Gütschow, artist and climate activist
Esther Ruelfs, Head of the Photography and New Media Department at the Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe Hamburg
Moderation: Cale Garrido, freelance curator and photo editor

Photography is capable of mapping climate change – of offering us a warning sign and making complex relationships easily comprehensible. At the same time, each further image is one more element in the overproduction that has brought us to the situation we are in today. Historically and still today, photography is bound up with industrialisation and the exploitation of mineral resources, as the recent “Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production” exhibition has shown. Do artists and curators not share the responsibility to act on unrestrained consumption by reducing CO2 footprints? Climate activist and artist Beate Gütschow will, alongside curator Esther Ruelfs, discuss why the production of art and exhibitions is nevertheless still valuable.