Join The Explorers Club and legendary photographer George Steinmetz on Monday, November 18th, as he shares pictures and stories from his ten-year project to document the sustainability of the global food supply, covering fieldwork in 27 states, 46 countries, and five oceans.
Do you know where your food comes from? To find out, George spent a decade documenting food production in more than 36 countries on 6 continents, 24 US states, and 5 oceans. In striking aerial images, he captures the massive scale of 21st-century agriculture that has sculpted 40 percent of the Earth’s surface. He explores the farming of staples like wheat and rice, the cultivation of vegetables and fruits, fishing and aquaculture, and meat production. He surveys traditional farming in diverse cultures, and he penetrates vast agribusinesses that fuel international trade. From Kansas wheat fields to a shrimp cocktail’s origins in India to cattle stations in Australia larger than some countries, Steinmetz tracks the foods we eat back to land and sea, field and factory. He takes us places that most of us never see, although our very lives depend on them.
This in-person event at the Explorers Club Headquarters will include an audience Q&A, with books available for signing after the presentation.
Streaming live here on explorers.org, our YouTube Channel, and our Facebook Live — Monday, November 18th at 7:00 pm ET.
RESERVATIONS
This will be an in-person lecture at Explorers Club Headquarters.
In-person tickets are $20 for Members, and $35 for the General Public.
Check-in will begin at 6:00 pm, with a beer and wine reception from 6:00 – 7:00 pm
George Steinmetz
Best known for his aerial photography, George Steinmetz has a restless curiosity to reveal the unknown: remote landscapes, our changing climate, and how we can meet the ever-expanding food needs of humanity. A regular contributor to National Geographic and the New York Times, he has explored subjects ranging from the mega-dunes of Arabia’s Empty Quarter to the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest to industrial squid fishing boats in the South Atlantic. George has completed more than 40 major photo essays for National Geographic and 25 stories for GEO magazine in Germany.
Born in California, George graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Geophysics. He began his career in photography after hitchhiking through Africa for 28 months. He spent fifteen years exploring the world’s deserts, mainly while piloting a motorized paraglider. This experimental aircraft enabled him to capture unique images of remote areas never seen from above before. He has spent the past ten years photographing the global food supply in 36 countries and five oceans, primarily with professional drones. George lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with his wife, journalist Lisa Bannon, and occasionally their three adult children, Nell, and twin sons John and Nicholas.
