The photo exhibition Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision with Nature is currently on display at the United Nations North-East Gallery Visitors’ Lobby in New York. Mark Edwards, photographer and founder of the photo agency Still Pictures, created the essay as a series of images shot over the last 40 years set to lyrics from Bob Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall. Photos from Edwards’ personal archive plus contributions by Sebastiao Salgado, Chris Steele-Perkins and others explore various themes including the environment, climate change and human rights. The photos, which are being displayed beneath a replica of the Sputnik satellite, coincide with the sixteenth Review Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development.

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