Ashley Cooper is a British photographer with a particular interest in documenting the effects of

global warming In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...

. His 2013 photograph of a polar bear that had starved to death was published in ''

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'' and elsewhere and called attention to the effect of the lack of sea ice in the

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Early life and education

Cooper graduated from the

University of Wales Aberystwyth , mottoeng = A world without knowledge is no world at all , established = 1872 (as ''The University College of Wales'') , former_names = University of Wales, Aberystwyth , type = Public , endowment = ...

in 1983 with a B.Sc. in physical geography. In 1986 he became the first person to climb all the 3,000 ft summits of Great Britain and Ireland (the Munros and the

Furths This is a list of Furth mountains in Britain and Ireland by height. Furths are defined as mountains that meet the classification criteria to be a Scottish Munro, including being over in elevation, but which are ''furth'' of (i.e. "outside" of ...

) in one continuous expedition of 111 days, 2,500 km, and 150 km of ascent.

Photography

Cooper won the climate change category of the 2010 Environmental Photographer of the Year, and was one of the judges for the 2018 competition. In 2016 he published ''Images from a Warming Planet: One man's mission to document climate change around the world'' (Global Warming Images: ), a large-format book containing 495 photographs, the result of a 13-year journey through 33 countries. ;

Personal life

He is married to Jill and lives in

Ambleside Ambleside is a town and former civil parish, now in the parish of Lakes, in Cumbria, in North West England. Historically in Westmorland, it marks the head (and sits on the east side of the northern headwater) of Windermere, England's larges ...

, Cumbria, where he has been a member of the Langdale/Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team for over 20 years.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Photographers from Cumbria Alumni of Aberystwyth University {{UK-photographer-stub