The release of the UN report on climate change got me to go dig out some attempts at conceptual photography I made a couple of years ago where I tried to represent the unbearable pressure we are putting on this planet that is our home (and that of countless other creatures), the rapacious attitude we display towards its resources and the threat to the ecological balance we have become.

In this one I used a "stress relieving ball" coloured to resemble the Earth with a band ornamented with child-like drawings of some of earth's creatures. Then I got my husband to squeeze his hand into an old glove of my mother's (that I thought had the right kind of bloody color and reminded me of the tight fitting gloves a thief might wear) then asked him to position his hand as if he were grabbing the "earth". The light is natural light from our kitchen window.

The other two are in the clickable PIPs.