Championing the women on the frontlines fighting climate change.
In the lead up to the historic COP21 UN summit, Look collaborated with Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin on a long-form immersive piece for Vogue, celebrating 12 of the most formidable women on the front line fighting against global warming. Additional content came from reporting during the event highlighting the work these women were doing in real-time: model/activist Cameron Russell presented the portraits and videos during the conference, all of which was later repurposed for a Vogue.com takeover with a storm of supplementary material, including an interview with President Barack Obama.
May Boeve is the executive director of the grassroots climate change organization 350.org. Laurence Tubiana, France’s ambassador for the international climate talks. Christiana Figueres is the United Nations’s top climate change official. Amina Mohammed is the special adviser on post-2015 development planning to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner is a poet and climate activist from the Marshall Islands. Farhana Yamin is an International climate lawyer, who attended the very first climate negotiation in 1992, in Lima, Peru.
Elizabeth Yeampierre is the co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance, and director of Uprose, Brooklyn's oldest Latino community based organization. Dessima Williams is a long-haul climate activist who served as the Grenadian ambassador to the United Nations. Rachel Kyte is the vice president of the World Bank Group and special envoy for climate change. Achala Abeysinghe of Sri Lanka is the legal adviser on climate change negotiations to the Chair of the Least Developed Countries. Joan Bavaria is the founder of Ceres, a nonprofit coalition that advocates for sustainable business practices.
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