ICOMOS-UK event – “Heritage at risk: a global perspective”

Thursday 3rd July, 5.30pm to 8.30pm, Alan Baxter Ltd – The Gallery, 75 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EL

ICOMOS-UK’s Summer Event this year focuses on ‘Heritage at Risk: A Global Perspective’.

It highlights the entries to the first ICOMOS-UK Photography Competition, which aimed to raise awareness of one of the most critical aspects of the work of ICOMOS over the last 60 years: to support the identification and protection of vulnerable heritage sites around the world, in the face of environmental threats, conflict, neglect, or socio-political challenges.

The event will include a lecture, a display of the shortlisted entries for the Photography Competition, and a informal drinks reception.

The Photography Competition received over 100 entries, showcasing extraordinary talent and dedication to preserving cultural memory through visual storytelling. Entries highlighted the fragility, beauty, and significance of cultural heritage, from renowned monuments to lesser-known structures and fragments. Through the competition, the work of the judges, and countless others around the world, we can understand and appreciate photography as art, record, evidence and memorial; as a way of sharing, and of holding to account.

The evening is an opportunity to reflect on these images and the stories they represent.

About the Speaker: Dr William Megarry

One such story told through these images is the impact of climate change and its many repercussions for people and place.

Guest speaker, Dr William Megarry, will consider some of the many intersections between climate change and cultural heritage. He firmly believes in the power of heritage as an enabler for meaningful and sustainable climate action. An archaeologist by background, he is currently a focal point for climate change at the International Council of Monuments and Sites and head of its Climate Action Working Group. He teaches at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

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Image: Towers of Silence, Karolina Sinead Johansson