The Hard Rain exhibition was launched at the Eden Project in Cornwall in May 2006. One of the most successful photographic exhibitions ever made, Hard Rain has seen by 15 million people at over 100 venues, and continues to tour worldwide.
United Nations Building, New York, 2008
Usually presented as a continuous 60-metre outdoor banner, an indoor version was displayed in the lobby of UN heaquarters in New York from May to June 2008, to coincide with the sixteenth Review Session of the UN's Commission on Sustainable Development and World Earth Day.
Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore, 2010
The companion exhibition Whole Earth? was launched at Keele University in February 2012. Further editions will tour Scotland and Sweden from March 2012, with specially commissioned photographs and stories about what local people and organizations are doing in response to the problems highlighted in Hard Rain.
What Scotland is doing will be opened by Climate Change Minister Stuart Stevenson at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on 13 March; and What Sweden is doing will be unveiled alongside Whole Earth? during the Stockholm+40 Partnership Forum for Sustainable Development from 23 to 25 April.
John F. Kennedy Arboretum, Co. Wexford, IRELAND June 2009
Vilnius University Botanical Garden, LITHUANIA 29 September to 30 October 2007 supported by the British Council
Hard Rain Picture Show in Vilnius, LITHUANIA Wednesday 27 February 2008
Hard Rain presentation by Mark Edwards, hosted by the UK Ambassador, to Lithuanian opinion-formers, including representatives of the Lithuanian creative community, to stimulate their involvement and capture public attention. The aim of the event was to raise awareness of climate change issues and sustainable development both in Lithuania and globally, and highlight the role Lithuanians can play in seeking solutions to global challenges.
Siauliai University Botanic Garden, LITHUANIA 15 August to 15 September 2008
I saw the exhibition on holiday in Cape Town in Kirstenbosch. Environmental issues in South Africa take a back seat, because we have seemingly more pressing issues like HIV, crime and poverty.
Due to this, I have also been very slack environmentally. Since I purchased the copy of the book I have committed myself to recycling properly, we are trying to grow some of our own produce, and I have replaced the light bulbs. Small start, I know, but we all have to start somewhere.
I did not find the book that grim due to the daily problems we face in Africa, but I do not hold much hope out for us changing the way we think in relation to national identities, boundaries, and the way we see "progress". However we can try, and that is what I intend to do.
Well done on a concise, informative, visual book. Chris Salmon, Durban
Kanaltorget, Avenyn, Gothenburg, SWEDEN 10 to 15 August 2010 during music festival Way Out West and Kulturkalaset (Culture Party) when aproxamatiley 200 000 people gathered around in the center of Gothenburg. in association with Sida
Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, UK 5 June to 15 September 2008 In association with Edinburgh City Council
I came across the exhibition on a sunny day while out with my children in Edinburgh and was profoundly moved and dismayed by the images and text. The power of this exhibition in the setting of Princes Street Gardens was intense and made me feel both insignificant and empowered. I did not share these images with my children who were happily playing but it is they and future generations that should compel all of us to act, however insignificant we may feel. Shian Randall, Scotland
Isle of Wight Festival, Seaclose Park, Newport, UK 11 to 13 June 2010 Sponsored by the British Council Interview by Vectis Radio
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T in the Park, Kinross, UK 9 to 11 July 2010
Transition Edinburgh University at George Square Edinburgh, UK 11 to 25 September 2010
University of Leicester, UK 4 October to 7 November 2010
University of Aberdeen 12 March to 12 April 2011 New Kings Lawn, King's College Hard Rain presentation 22 March More info University of Liverpool 15 March to 15 April 2011 Guild Walk Hard Rain presentation - 31 March 2011 More info University of Bath 31 March to 8 April 2011 Hard Rain presentation 7 April More info
HARD RAIN: What'll you do now? Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 14 May to 30 October 2011
Nottingham Trent University 21 October to 11 November 2011 Hard Rain presentation by Mark Edwards Monday 31 October
United Nations Building, New York, USA 5 May to 15 June 2008 Sponsored by Still Pictures and the United Nations Environment Programme, in association with Columbia Records.
Kew Gardens, summer 2011 © Chris Steele-Perkins
United Nations Building, New York, 2008
