{"id":23425,"date":"2014-04-18T19:40:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T23:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=23425"},"modified":"2014-05-26T21:12:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T01:12:52","slug":"george-steinmetz-speaks-on-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=23425","title":{"rendered":"George Steinmetz speaks on Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/earth-day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23423\" title=\"earth day\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/earth-day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/earth-day.jpg 337w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/earth-day-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/earth-day-250x167.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a>George Steinmetz, <em>Sandstone Pinnacles, Karnasai Valley, Chad<\/em>, 1998. Courtesy of the artist.<\/p>\n<p>Acclaimed National Geographic Photographer George Steinmetz Presents Stunning Aerial Desert Photographs:\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Desert Air<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>George Steinmetz Keynote Speaker: Earth Day, April 22, 12:15 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>First Canadian Place, Waterfall Stage<\/strong><br \/>\n100 King Street West<\/p>\n<p>This Arts Brookfield-commissioned exhibition features 42 large-scale photographs from the book Desert Air by George Steinmetz. The award-winning National Geographic photographer spent fifteen years documenting the world\u2019s extreme deserts from the air, using the lightest and slowest motorized paraglider that exists, to capture some of the world\u2019s most remote environments.<\/p>\n<p>This ambitious project took him to 27 countries plus Antarctica to create the first comprehensive photographic book on all of the world\u2019s hyper arid deserts. These include the most remote and inhospitable places on our planet, from the summits of the Andes to the shores of the Dead Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Steinmetz ventured from the hottest place on earth, in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia, to the coldest in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibition information: Desert Air, April 21 \u2013 May 16, 2014, First Canadian Place, 100 King Street West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 22, 2014 \/ 12:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>First Canadian Place, Waterfall Stage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> National Geographic photographer George Steinmetz spent fifteen years documenting the world\u2019s extreme deserts from the air<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=23425\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-archive","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23425"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24018,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23425\/revisions\/24018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}