Seizing Hold of a Memory as It Flashes Up
Seizing Hold of a Memory as It Flashes Up, 2010Blind embossing
Edition of 175 prints, 559 × 762mm
Seizing Hold of a Memory as It Flashes Up is a blind embossing print using the speech of twelve-year old Severn Suzuki, daughter of Japanese Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist David Suzuki, delivered at the 1992 Earth Summit. In 1992 Ms. Suzuki together with her friends and members of E.C.O., the Environmental Children’s Organization, fundraised the money to travel from Vancouver to Brazil, so they could attend the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. At the Earth Summit, Severn Suzuki delivered her speech before 172 representatives of different countries, 108 heads of state or government, some 2400 representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and 17000 people attended the parallel NGO “Global Forum” had Consultative Status. This particular meeting of the UN was particularly important because one of the significant achievements was an agreement on the Climate Change Convention which in turn led to the Kyoto Protocol.
Photograph by Guy L'Heureux
© Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen