Exploring Risk

Photo credit Achewiq: The Song of the Brave Women

The theme for this year’s Exploring Risk festival is Shifting the Gaze in Narratives of Disaster Risk Globally. Picture of Risk 2024 explores this theme by considering how photography provides a lens through which we can understand disaster risk and how choices such as framing, subject and photographer can influence the narrative that is generated.

Durham University’s Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience presents: Reconnecting with our roots: building resilience through community projects Over millennia, human civilisations have developed technologies and protocols to protect their communities and reduce the severity of risk from hazardous events. Often some of the most successful approac

Ahead of the Exploring Risk Film Festival, the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience hosted a photography exhibition entitled a Picture of Risk: Exploring Risk through Narrative Photography. Photographers and researchers were invited to submit one photo that tells a story related to: An exhibition is now running, with photos being displayed in t

Durham University’s Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience presents: Feature Film “The Salt in Our Waters” by Rezwan Shahriar Sumit Set in a tiny mangrove isle in the Bay of Bengal, The Salt in Our Waters is the story of RUDRO (32), a city-raised sculptor who comes to this place, hoping to understand the people… Continue reading Exploring Risk Fi