Homeless Polar Bear


  • Photographer
    Jason van Bruggen
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    June 2015
  • Technical Info
    jpeg, 1000 pixels, 72 dpi

An unpublished image from a video and photography campaign I shot for Greenpeace in Amsterdam. This body of work anthropomorphizes Polar Bears and explores the notion of Polar Bears interacting on a more frequent basis with humans in urban environments as their habitat is threatened by global warming. This idea was informed by a true story that I came across while visiting Deline, a community in Canada's Northwest Territories. In 2008, a polar bear mother and two cubs made it as far south as Great Bear Lake (hundreds of kilometers from the Arctic Ocean). As habitat shrinks and food sources become scarce, more and more of examples of starving polar bear foraging beyond their range come to light.

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