Oil Sands Healing Walk
This image makes a personal connection between a large-scale climate cause and two identifiable individual subjects, which our research suggests is a powerful way of making the link in the viewer's mind.
Rights Managed
WHAT IT SHOWS: Children sit on the back of a truck during the 2014 Healing walk in the Alberta tar sands near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. The Healing Walk was an annual event led by Indigenous Peoples to draw attention to the devastation wrought by the tar sands industry.
Photo by
Ben Powless
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