Sean Gallagher
My name is Sean Gallagher, a British photographer and filmmaker based in Beijing, China.
From the Tibetan Plateau to the Indonesian archipelago, I often spend months in the field travelling throughout Asia documenting the most pressing conflicts between nature and humanity for some of the world's leading news outlets.
I am a 6-time recipient of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting travel grant and am represented by National Geographic Creative.
I graduated in Zoology from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England and it is my background in science that has led to now communicating environmental issues through visual storytelling.
I do this by creating unique photographic, video and multimedia projects that highlight individual's stories from communities that are affected by issues such as desertification, deforestation, pollution, species extinction and climate change.
In 2006 I moved to China, providing on-the-ground photographic and video coverage of China's phenomenal rise, reporting in-depth features about social, environmental, health and political issues.
My work has appeared with outlets including The New York Times, National Geographic News, CNN, The Atlantic and BBC News. My work on environmental issues in China was acknowledged as "some of the most striking images on display at [the] Copenhagen climate change conference," by the BBC World Service .
I have received a number of awards and grants for my work, including:
Environmental Film of the Year - Winner - 'The Toxic Price of Leather'. Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year Competition 2014.
Six-time recipient of travel grant from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (2009-2013).
Published 'Meltdown', a multimedia eBook documenting China's environmental crises in the early 21st Century.
Photocrati Fund Honourable Mention (2013 & 2012).
First Place for Multimedia in the Press Photographer's Year Awards (2011).
Shortlisted at the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalists in Multimedia Category (2010).
Honourable mention at the Earth Journalism Awards at COP15 (2009).
First recipient of the David Alan Harvey Fund for Emerging Photographers (2008).
Sponsorship recipient from FujiFilmUK to continue documentary work in China (2006).
Selected to undertake a 1-year paid internship at the photojournalism agency Magnum Photos (2004-2005). Mentored by the late, Philip Jones Griffiths.
Shortlisted as part of the Ian Parry Scholarship for Young Photojournalists (2003).
I collaborate extensively with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting who have helped sponsor many of my projects in China. These projects have included a 4000km journey across the country documenting the threats from increasing desertification, a 7-province trip investigating the impacts of disappearing wetlands and a 1-month journey across the Tibetan plateau photographing the effects of climate change on the 'roof of the world'.
I am involved in education-outreach programmes both in Asia and the United States, using visual storytelling to communicate the issues that I cover to a wide variety of audiences. To date, I have presented my work and spoken to over 50 institutions including:
The Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars
The Shanghai World Expo
The Climate Institute
American University
Georgetown University
State Department of the US Government
BBC World Service
© 2006-2014 Sean Gallagher All Rights Reserved.
My name is Sean Gallagher, a British photographer and filmmaker based in Beijing, China.
From the Tibetan Plateau to the Indonesian archipelago, I often spend months in the field travelling throughout Asia documenting the most pressing conflicts between nature and humanity for some of the world's leading news outlets.
I am a 6-time recipient of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting travel grant and am represented by National Geographic Creative.
I graduated in Zoology from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England and it is my background in science that has led to now communicating environmental issues through visual storytelling.
I do this by creating unique photographic, video and multimedia projects that highlight individual's stories from communities that are affected by issues such as desertification, deforestation, pollution, species extinction and climate change.
In 2006 I moved to China, providing on-the-ground photographic and video coverage of China's phenomenal rise, reporting in-depth features about social, environmental, health and political issues.
My work has appeared with outlets including The New York Times, National Geographic News, CNN, The Atlantic and BBC News. My work on environmental issues in China was acknowledged as "some of the most striking images on display at [the] Copenhagen climate change conference," by the BBC World Service .
I have received a number of awards and grants for my work, including:
Environmental Film of the Year - Winner - 'The Toxic Price of Leather'. Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year Competition 2014.
Six-time recipient of travel grant from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (2009-2013).
Published 'Meltdown', a multimedia eBook documenting China's environmental crises in the early 21st Century.
Photocrati Fund Honourable Mention (2013 & 2012).
First Place for Multimedia in the Press Photographer's Year Awards (2011).
Shortlisted at the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalists in Multimedia Category (2010).
Honourable mention at the Earth Journalism Awards at COP15 (2009).
First recipient of the David Alan Harvey Fund for Emerging Photographers (2008).
Sponsorship recipient from FujiFilmUK to continue documentary work in China (2006).
Selected to undertake a 1-year paid internship at the photojournalism agency Magnum Photos (2004-2005). Mentored by the late, Philip Jones Griffiths.
Shortlisted as part of the Ian Parry Scholarship for Young Photojournalists (2003).
I collaborate extensively with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting who have helped sponsor many of my projects in China. These projects have included a 4000km journey across the country documenting the threats from increasing desertification, a 7-province trip investigating the impacts of disappearing wetlands and a 1-month journey across the Tibetan plateau photographing the effects of climate change on the 'roof of the world'.
I am involved in education-outreach programmes both in Asia and the United States, using visual storytelling to communicate the issues that I cover to a wide variety of audiences. To date, I have presented my work and spoken to over 50 institutions including:
The Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars
The Shanghai World Expo
The Climate Institute
American University
Georgetown University
State Department of the US Government
BBC World Service
© 2006-2014 Sean Gallagher All Rights Reserved.
