Winners

“I took a picture of a flower and divided it in half. The first half shows the flower when treated properly with no pollution or climate change and the second half shows the flower when it’s affected by pollution and climate change.”

“This photo is trying to represent that people are trying to turn our world into garbage by littering or by using too much plastic. So it is showing that the world has become garbage and people don’t care now. Also the world is turning into garbage by pollution, so it is basically like giving our world drugs. And what drugs do is make you infected. So we are basically killing our world slowly.”

“This photo is trying to represent that people are trying to turn our world into garbage by littering or by using too much plastic. So it is showing that the world has become garbage and people don’t care now. Also the world is turning into garbage by pollution, so it is basically like giving our world drugs. And what drugs do is make you infected. So we are basically killing our world slowly.”

“Blackness surrounds golden light in this photo of a glass of water. Large corporations are insisting that oil is the new (black) gold, yet it is estimated that 780 million people in this world don’t have access to clean water. Through a chain of clever marketing, and a society carved out from the dependency of oil, we are threatening water and in turn, ourselves. Oil is no black gold. And gold has no real value other than the fact that it sparkles. Would the world care more for water if I painted it as though it were oil or gold?”

“In the last 30 years, we have left a massive carbon footprint across the world. Many people and animals are being affected by it every day. Most don’t care to help the earth and are only focused on their own lives. We think that it is important to show the effects of our carbon footprint because there are many things in the world that we are trying to make more eco-friendly like cars, airplanes and boats. Simple things, like turning off the lights in your house or using less plastic and recycling more makes a big difference in our world.”