Category:Environmental photography

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Environmental photography encompasses a wide variety of work by photographers who use the environment and all its many aspects as their subject. These photographers may document or record events of general or specific environmental interest, for example, the work of environmental pressure groups or the actions of companies or individuals that are having a negative (or indeed positive) impact on environments. Photography documenting natural disasters such as earthquakes, as well as of manmade disasters such as oil spills from tankers are also included within, what is a very broad category. Often the purpose behind this type of photography is not soley to record a news story, but also to broaden our understanding of our environment and of mankind's impact upon it. Many photographers working in this field believe that photographic imagery can be a powerful medium to challenge preconceptions and in so doing alter thinking and behaviour.