The Hard Rain exhibition will be on display on the Queen’s Lawn from 15 February. Photographs from around the world illustrate every line of Bob Dylan’s prophetic song, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, setting the scene for a moving and unforgettable exploration of the state of our planet and its people at this critical time.
The exhibition has been seen by over 15 million people on every continent. One of the most successful photographic displays ever created, it has attracted huge public and critical acclaim, along with the support and endorsement of political, business and environment leaders across the world.
The issues highlighted in Hard Rain – the wasteful and unsustainable use of resources by the few, debilitating poverty for the many, population expansion, habitat loss, more and more species threatened with extinction, and the summation of our problems, climate change – are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that illustrate the 21st century.
The Hard Rain project puts the puzzle together to show that there are not many problems but one problem with many solutions: The one problem – aligning human systems with natural systems.
For further information regarding the Hard Rain project please visit http://www.hardrainproject.com/index.php Mark Edward, Director, Hard Rain project will be coming to Imperial on 3 March to present his work. For details of his presentation please click here.
Each day I avert my eyes and steer my thoughts away from the inevitable outcome. I ignore the headlong rush which sweeps us all along and bury my head in silence and in shame. The monumental extent of that which brings about our end has seemed unassailable. Increasingly I have been unable to engage. Everywhere I look I see my own participation in this race to, and over, the precipice.
Hard Rain inspires me to try and stand again. To know that others share this bleakest outlook brings a ray of hope. At first I thought that Dylan’s lines should not be illustrated. I was wrong. Sincerely, Christy Moore