Helena Christensen opens in London her photo exhibition about Peru

November 23rd, 2009

The Danish former supermodel Helena Christensen, now a a photographer, documented the threat that global climate change is posing to the indigenous people of people of Peru (the native country of her mother) in a series of photographs which are being exhibited in London since last Thursday.
Christensen traveled to the Peruvian Andes earlier this year with Oxfam (the organization that sponsors the exhibition) to portray the suffering of indigenous people who are increasingly dealing with from lack of water and food due to rising temperatures, a change in the cycle of seasons and an accelerated melting of glaciers.
Peru is the third most vulnerable to climate change country after Honduras and Bangladesh, and its glaciers have lost 22% of its total area in the last 30 years, which is equivalent to Lima’s water consumption for 10 years, according Oxfam.
“For many of us, climate change is an idea that belongs to the distant future but for millions of people in developing countries it is already a devastating reality,” said Christensen, less than three weeks before the opening of the Copenhagen climate summit (to start on December 7th).
source: livinginperu.com