OnAsia has launched a new environmental photo exhibition illustrating key environmental issues such as air and water pollution, deforestation and global warming. The images are by OnAsia photographers working in different parts of Asia and constitute an eye-opening visual account of the environmental destruction being wrought throughout the region. The exhibition opens at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Thailand in Bangkok on March 20th, and will run until April 10th.

OnAsia Press Release

ONASIA TO LAUNCH ENVIRONMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT AT FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS’ CLUB IN BANGKOK

BANGKOK, Thailand (March 17th, 2009)—Environmental issues are in the spotlight again at an exhibition by OnAsia photographers (www.onasia.com) opening on March 20th at Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Thailand (www.fccthai.com) located in the Maneeya Building in central Bangkok.

The images are by OnAsia photographers working in different parts of Asia and constitute an eye-opening visual account of the environmental destruction being wrought throughout the region, often in the name of progress.

The pictures were selected by OnAsia’s editors from a wide range of environment-related imagery contributed by 14 of the agency’s photographers.

Documentary in style, the exhibition illustrates key environmental issues such as air and water pollution, deforestation and global warming. It also includes photographs depicting the effect that rapid development and the destruction of the natural environment is having on indigenous wildlife. One particularly arresting image shows a wheelbarrow full of baby orangutans at a rescue centre in Borneo; where these fascinating primates are being increasingly threatened by deforestation.

“At OnAsia we’re lucky to be working with some of the leading photographic talents in this region and this is certainly one of the most pressing issues there is to cover, not just in Asia but globally,” said Olivier Nilsson, the agency’s Senior Editor. “We have a significant and growing photographic archive depicting many different aspects of environmental degradation in Asia and felt that the time was right to show it as a coherent exhibit.”

Launched at the Perpignan International photojournalism festival in 2003, OnAsia has become the leading Asia-specialised editorial photo agency.

OnAsia has an online archive of over 180,000 high resolution images that has become a preferred resource for leading publications around the world. The agency also represents around 180 photographers living and working throughout the region. Its photographers cover a wide variety of subjects from political and social trends, through gritty photo reportage to more colourful, and even humorous, travel and illustration imagery. OnAsia also has a growing historical archive.

OnAsia’s environmental exhibition will run until April 10. Opening times are Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m.

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