The Charleston Library Society and Buxton Books are honored to co-host renowned Dr. Edda Fields-Black in conversation with Dana Beach, Founder & Director Emeritus- South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, to discuss her most recent publication, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War. In her book, Dr. Fields-Black dives into the story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman’s most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents written by a descendant of one of the participants.

We will also discuss the upcoming exhibit that tells this story which opens at The Gibbes Museum in May 2025

An exhibit of photographs of threatened coastlines. Years in the making, this series looks at the things jeopardized by climate crisis ocean rise and storm activity

A multimedia collaboration with Chinese pianist Sophia Zhou playing the Goldberg Variations and 2019 Environmental Photographer of the Year J Henry Fair.
Presented by The Weeden Foundation for the Environment and Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.
Johann Sebastian Bach was born and spent much of his working life in the brown coal regions of Germany. Today these provide a large percentage of the electricity for the powerhouse of Europe, and the largest impact of greenhouse gases in Europe.
The war in Ukraine, and its impact on natural gas supplies to Europe will only increase this conundrum.

This program will be a hybrid event (in-person AND virtual). Those interested in attending the program virtually can register here.

An evening conversation with photographer J Henry Fair and naturalist Ed Kanze, moderated by NCPR’s Mitch Teich. ADKX’s 2022 seasonal exhibition Scarred Landscape features Fair’s monumental aerial photographs documenting human impact upon the Adirondack landscape; the writings of Ed Kanze complement the images. This highly visual program will expand upon the exhibition narrative and offer a thoughtful dialogue between photographer and naturalist as they talk about their work and what the future holds for the region’s fragile beauty.

Join us for a virtual tour of J Henry Fair's studio (via Zoom)!
J Henry Fair is an American photographer and environmental activist. Known for his "chillingly beautiful" (Audubon Magazine) environmental aerial photos, Fair has called attention to environmental and political problems in different regions of the world. Fair is the winner of the 2019 "Environmental Photographer of the Year" and the 2012 "Earth Through A Lens" Award. In 2020, Fair was featured as one of the 12 most influential nature and conservation photographers of our time in the newly released book, Human Nature. The book received critical acclaim in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

Important Zoom Information: Registration for all virtual events will close 5 hours before the program begins. Zoom invitations will be emailed 24 hours in advance of the program. If you don't receive an email with an invitation code, please check your spam folder or send an email to: dflanaganrca@aol.com.

Can photography lead to environmental engagement? Hosted by the Yale Center for Environmental Communication, join photographers J Henry Fair, Tim Laman, and Steve Winter, discussing their work in Human Nature: Planet Earth in Our Time, Twelve Photographers Address the Future of the Environment. The 2020 book, by George Blackwell and Ruth Hobday, connects written text with mesmerizing images to ask the question what do we have? What do we have to lose? And what do we have to change?

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Come to the museum and ask our experts about the making of the exhibit Artefakte. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin staff, the artist J Henry Fair, scientists from the Joint Research Centre and climate experts will be there to talk to you.

Art and environmental activism come together in this talk by celebrated American Photographer J Henry Fair. His superbly beautiful aerial images are appealing and bold- at first glance compositions of abstract shapes and colors. A closer look reveals them to be the detritus of industrial processes.  

I will very proudly give the first introduction and signing of my new book with Papdakis Publisher: On The Edge: From Combahee to Winyah at the prestigious Charleston Library Society, where I would get my books as a child.
All proceeds of the book sales will go to the Coastal Conservation League a group working hard to preserve all that we love about this special coastline.
There will also be prints from the series available, and a portion of those proceeds will also benefit the League.