Antarctic Whale Warriors

Head On Photo Festival 2013

Glenn Lockitch

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Dates: 28 May 2013 - 30 Jun 2013

Location: Kings Cross Library 50-52 Darlinghurst Rd Kings Cross NSW 2011 Australia

Hours: Mon-Tue 10am–7pm, Wed-Sun 10am–6pm, Sat 10am–4pm, Sun 11am–4pm. Closed Mon 10 June 2013

Entry Fee: Free

Exhibition Event:

Official Opening 28/05/2013 7:00 am

Sea Shepherd’s Operation Zero Tolerance was their ninth Antarctic anti-whaling defence campaign and its most successful to date saving 932 whales from slaughter by Japanese whalers.

From news to daily life photos Antarctic Whale Warriors portrays the strategic, dangerous and courageous fight by the 120 volunteer Sea Shepherd marine activists from 25 countries to save the lives of whales that each year are illegally killed in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary.

For 110 days Glenn Lockitch was an official photographer on board the Sea Shepherd ship the Bob Barker. He covered more than 25000km, traversed one third of the Antarctic continent, got rammed and hosed to document the campaign which had some of the worst hostilities experienced yet between the 4 Sea Shepherd ships and 6 Japanese whaling ships.

Due to the inaction of Governments Sea Shepherd chooses to act. The marine conservation organisation cites the United Nations World Charter for Nature (Sections 21-24) which provides authority to individuals to act on behalf of and enforce international conservation laws.

Antarctica is the last great wildernesses on earth. While there is a lot of good scientific research on climate change being done in Antarctica, there is also a strong suspicion that governments, fishing corporations and research institutions are maintaining links to Antarctica with the intention of staking claims to its resources when the protocol governing its environmental protection, the Madrid Protocol, is reviewed in 2041