Project Survival Media, which trains young people in countries across the world to tell stories about local climate solutions using visual media like photography and video.
While visual media is no substitute for on-the-ground organizing, activists are increasingly using it in strategic ways: by documenting evidence of pollution and abuse of power, connecting once-isolated groups, and helping to raise funds and resources. Perhaps more importantly, though, Wood says that images can “change the dominant narratives around solutions”; that is, allow people who have been excluded from media-making to tell their own stories of community power, and in so doing build a new story of climate change—one of hope rather than fear.