Here is the latest episode in the series “Photojournalism Now: In Conversation”, led by journalist Alison Stieven-Taylor. An essential interview with American reporter James Whitlow Delano.
When news of the global pandemic spread to the world in 2020, award-winning American reporter James Whitlow Delano was on a mission in Antarctica. He was eager to return to Japan, where he has lived for over 20 years, but bad weather delayed his departure. As borders around the world began to close, Whitlow Delano wondered if he was going to get stuck thousands of miles from home.
In the sixth and final filmed interview in the “Photojournalism Today” series, journalist and scholar Alison Stieven-Taylor talks to Whitlow Delano about his time in Antarctica. They talk about a long-term project, Drowning in Plastic, which was exhibited at the Visa pour l’image festival in 2020. This series reveals the disastrous impact of plastic on the planet and how it reaches even the most remote places , like the Andes in Peru. There, for example, plastic waste is piled up along the narrow paths leading to the mountains.