Climate emergency photography fails when it tries to perform urgency at the speed of news. Climax collects work that does the opposite — Hatakeyama's return-photographs at Rikuzentakata, the slow record of thawing permafrost, salt lakes drying to outline, olive groves erased into parking, skies emptied of stars. Less argument than archive, less urgency than memory.
Witness, not manifesto. The long look against the burn.
