Neuroscientist, writer and stage director Indre Viskontas will be joined by world-renowned photographer Jo-Anne McArthur and co-founder of the BigPicture photography competition and exhibit curator Rhonda Rubinstein for a conversation about the power of images to change how we see the world, raise awareness about the most urgent environmental issues, and spark action. This event will also feature the work of McArthur and other photographers in Seeing It All: Women Photographers Expose Our Planet, the latest publication from BigPicture and the California Academy of Sciences.

Written by Rubinstein, Seeing It All features more than 125 photos by female BigPicture award recipients and jurors, whose incredible images illustrate the extraordinary complexity of the natural world and expose how we—humans, animals, nature—are living together now. Featuring a foreword by renowned oceanographer Sylvia Earle and essays by Indre Viskontas and Rebecca Solnit, this important book presents new perspectives of rarely seen animals, places, and conservation around the world.

February 28, 2024

SPEAKERS

Jo-Anne McArthur
Photojournalist; Author; Founder, We Animals Media

Rhonda Rubinstein
Co-founder, BigPicture Natural World Photography; Creative Director, California Academy of Sciences; Curator and Editor, Seeing it All

Dr. Indre Viskontas
M.M., Ph.D., Neuroscientist; Opera Stage Director; Associate Professor of Psychology, University of San Francisco; Faculty Member, San Francisco Conservatory of Music—Moderator

Debra Reabock
Reabock Photography—Host

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