New Events taking place in the United States by Julie Dermansky based in the New Orleans Area . All photographs on this website are © Julie Dermansky. All uses of any of the images require a license and photo credit, including the copyright notice, and each image includes metadata that shall not be stripped. Contact us at jsdart@mac.com to obtain a license prior to any reproduction, distribution or display of any of the images.

Collection of extreme weather events. Here is a report I did for DeSmog on connection to our warming planet and extreme weather: Pruitt’s Plan to Debate Climate Science Paused as Science Confirms Human Link to Extreme Weather https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/12/19/pruitt-red-team-climate-science-human-link-extreme-weather

Southern Louisiana Wetlands are threatened with coastal erosion. Here are some of my multimedia reports Nine Years After Katrina, Coastal Restoration Plans Remain Distant Dream for New Orleans http://desmogblog.com/2014/08/31/nine-years-after-katrina-coastal-restoration-plans-distant-dream-new-orleans Five Years After the BP Oil Disaster: A Barrier Island for Nesting Birds Devoid of Life http://desmogblog.com/2015/04/19/five-years-after-bp-oil-disaster-barrier-island-nesting-birds-devoid-life Capturing the Southern Wild Before It Disappears http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/01/18/julie_dermansky_photos_from_the_beasts_of_the_southern_wild_region_disappearing.html In Celebration of Earth Day: Photos Capture the Beauty of Southeastern Louisiana's Wetlandshttp://www.desmogblog.com/2014/04/22/celebration-earth-day-photos-capture-beauty-southeastern-louisiana-s-wetlands

New Orleans, flavor here is abundant for all of ones senses. My photos were taken btw Nov. 2006 till current day. My collection covers everything from food to crime. If you would like to purchase prints or license any of the images on this site please contact Julie Dermansky at jsdart@mac.com. Cutting/copying/pasting images for media/web sites/blog use without permission constitutes copyright theft.

If you would like to purchase prints or license any of the images on this site please contact Julie Dermansky at jsdart@mac.com. Cutting/copying/pasting images for media/web sites/blog use without permission constitutes copyright theft.

If you would like to purchase prints or license any of the images on this site please contact Julie Dermansky at jsdart@mac.com. Cutting/copying/pasting images for media/web sites/blog use without permission constitutes copyright theft.

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I began covering the BP oil spill from the start of the disaster and continue to cover the story. My images were published by the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the Guardian and the Times of London. I became known as the reporter who wouldn't answer to BP because i resisted restrictions put on reporters covering the spill. I have continued reporting on the spill. here is my most recent report Five Years After The BP Oil Spill, Gulf Coast Residents Say “BP Hasn’t Made Things Right” http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/04/21/five-years-after-bp-oil-spill-gulf-coast-residents-say-bp-hasn-t-made-things-right and Five Years After the BP Oil Disaster: A Barrier Island for Nesting Birds Devoid of Life http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/04/19/five-years-after-bp-oil-disaster-barrier-island-nesting-birds-devoid-life If you would like to purchase prints or license any of the images on this site please contact Julie Dermansky at jsdart@mac.com. Cutting/copying/pasting images for media/web sites/blog use without permission constitutes copyright theft.

If you would like to purchase prints or license any of the images on this site please contact Julie Dermansky at jsdart@mac.com. Cutting/copying/pasting images for media/web sites/blog use without permission constitutes copyright theft.

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I spent 5 months in Iraq embedded with the Louisiana National Guard and the US Army 10 Mountain Division. Here are two books I created: Iraq in Transition: https://www.blurb.com/b/925674 and Dispatched from Iraq , a book with all the blog posts I created while in Iraq: http://www.blurb.com/b/925878-dispatches-from-iraq-five-months-as-an-embedded-jou If you would like to purchase prints or license any of the images on this site please contact Julie Dermansky at jsdart@mac.com. Cutting/copying/pasting images for media/web sites/blog use without permission constitutes copyright theft.

I covered the Occupy Movement in NYC/ Oakland and Chicago. I made my way to NYC after protesters were maced on a Sunday during the protests first week. THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT http://www.blurb.com/b/3285962-the-occupy-wall-street-movement-by-julie-dermansky If you would like to purchase prints or license any of the images on this site please contact Julie Dermansky at jsdart@mac.com. Cutting/copying/pasting images for media/web sites/blog use without permission constitutes copyright theft.

If you would like to purchase prints or license any of the images on this site please contact Julie Dermansky at jsdart@mac.com. Cutting/copying/pasting images for media/web sites/blog use without permission constitutes copyright theft.

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Dark tourism is tourism geared to dark places. Here is a link to a project I did on the topic. Memorial Sites: New York to Nairobi . The book is illustrated with photographs of memorial sites shot around the world . The book was made for exhibition at the Center for Architecture on the even of the anniversary of 9/11 in anticipation of the memorial at Ground Zero. In it are essays by Rick Bell , the former director of the Center for Architecture, and Tracey Hummer, the shows curator. http://www.blurb.com/b/392829-memorial-sites-new-york-to-nairobi-photographs-by-j My series on dark tourism continues to grow. It is impossible for me to keep up with the new sites popping up around the world commemorating atrocious acts perpetrated by mankind. If you would like to purchase prints or license any of the images on this site please contact Julie Dermansky at jsdart@mac.com. Cutting/copying/pasting images for media/web sites/blog use without permission constitutes copyright theft.

If you would like to purchase prints or license any of the images on this site please contact Julie Dermansky at jsdart@mac.com. Cutting/copying/pasting images for media/web sites/blog use without permission constitutes copyright theft.

If you would like to purchase prints or license any of the images on this site please contact Julie Dermansky at jsdart@mac.com. Cutting/copying/pasting images for media/web sites/blog use without permission constitutes copyright theft.

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From 1989 through 2004 I was a studio artist. I worked as a sculptor painter and as a photographer. I ran a crafts business too design and fabricating garden stakes, furniture and jewelry . I used my photographs as source material for my work- though as the years went on photography became my medium of choice. I gave up my studio and traded my welding gear for better photo gear , than took off around the world shooting. I ended up in New Orleans and made it my base in 2007. I sill have the urge to go into art supply stores and buy paint I don't need and fondle a few paint brushes... and the smell of a welders shop is like perfume to me- however my love for photography keeps me shooting. Artist Statement : I am documenting mankind’s demise through photography, video, and the written word. My work illustrates Man’s disregard for social justice and negligence toward the planet.I began seeing the world through a viewfinder when I was a child, using my fingers to create a circle that I held to my eye to frame compositions. Now I use a digital camera. My lifelong interest in natural history drew me to New Orleans to document a Tulane University collection in 2006. The devastation left in Hurricane Katrina’s wake opened my eyes to society’s disconnect with science and the part we play in climate change. Since 2008, my work has focused on social injustice and signs of anthropogenic environmental degradation that has led to climate disruption. I document social, political, and environmental change. My growing body of work illustrates the connection between climate change and mass protests. I hunt for the archetype in the landscape and find hints of the apocalypse in the world around me. I juxtapose the mundane and the extraordinary. My work captures humanity at its most vulnerable, exposed and uncensored. I find beauty in the grotesque and power in the poignant details that make up history unfolding around me. My photographs search for catharsis in the stillness of the aftermath and present tragedy, mixed with irony once the action has subsided. Since the 2010 BP spills in the Gulf of Mexico, I have been documenting the fossil fuel industry, both existing and new installations, and controversial developments including the Keystone XL pipeline and hydraulic fracturing. I document the people directly affected, who have lost faith in the regulatory agencies meant to protect them. Many have become activists, fighting for their families and the greater good once they understand the impact the fossil fuel industry's expansion has on climate change. My photographs of industry and those affected by it serve as documentation of Man's role in creating climate change and environmental degradation. This series documenting the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry serves as visual testimony that humanity is courting imminent disaster.

Photos taken in Haiti following the earthquake in 2010. Here are links to some of my reports. For the Guardian: What I saved when the quake struck Haiti http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2010/feb/10/haiti-natural-disasters and a multi media report of the Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/04/a-moment-with-bush-and-clinton/38498/ A Moment with Bush and Clinton If you would like to purchase prints or license any of the images on this site please contact Julie Dermansky at jsdart@mac.com. Cutting/copying/pasting images for media/web sites/blog use without permission constitutes copyright theft.