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Can graphic imagination wake audiences up to the climate emergency? This multimedia artist believes so

Berlin-based Michael Najjar has been working with scientists in Greenland to tell stories with images designed to replace familiar memes of environmental journalism

Simon Bainbridge
25 April 2025
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Michael Najjar created rising seas (above) by reconstructing dozens of photographs so that the mountain peak line matches the graph of global warming, tracking temperatures from 1850 on the far left up to projections of a 4°C rise in 2100 on the extreme right

Courtesy the artist