Our Coming Coast: A Panel Discussion about Climate Change in our Chesapeake Communities

As part of his series “The Coming Coast,” photographer Michael O. Snyder met and photographed a diverse group of people who are actively working to hold back and adapt to the rising tides in the Chesapeake. This panel discussion brings together many of those photographed in “The Coming Coast” for a shared discussion about how individuals from different backgrounds, lifeways, and perspectives can find common ground and work together to protect a shared resource.

About Michael O. Snyder:

Michael O. Snyder is a photographer and filmmaker who uses his combined knowledge of visual storytelling and conservation to create narratives that drive social impact. Through his production company, Interdependent Pictures, he has directed films in the Arctic, the Amazon, the Himalaya, and East Africa. His photojournalism work has been featured by outlets such as National Geographic, The Guardian, and The Washington Post. He is a Portrait of Humanity Award Winner, a Society of Environmental Journalists Member, a Bertha Investigative Journalism Fellow, a Pulitzer Grantee, and a recent delegate to the United Nations Climate Conference. He holds an MSc in Environmental Sustainability from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and a BSc in Geology from Dickinson College, Pennsylvania. He lives in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Central Virginia where he is a resident artist at the McGuffey Art Center.