Seeds matter. Without them, humanity cannot sustain itself. Yet given worldwide threats from global warming and pollution, biodiversity and seed sustainability are at risk. As a curator and academic who has spent many years investigating photography and the environment, I wanted to produce an exhibition exploring these urgent issues. Seedscapes: Future-Proofing Nature brings together five international artists, each of whom offers her own particular way of addressing this important topic.

Prosperous Mountain by Heidi Morstang takes us to Svalbard, the site of the Global Seed Vault, where ...

 

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