Ciril Jazbec

Peru is home to 70% of the world’s tropical glaciers, but 40% of its surface area has disappeared since the 1970s. According to Peru’s National Institute of Natural Resources, all of the country’s 200 glaciers are under threat. It is feared that by 2025, they will be completely gone.

In this documentary, Ciril tells the story of a mountain community at the frontier of climate change, adapting to pollution caused by glacier melt through ingenuity and traditional, indigenous knowledge.

Amongst its many awards, Dream to Cure Water won “Short Form – Climate Categories” at the Jackson Wild Media Awards, the highest bar of achievement in natural history filmmaking. Most recently the film was a finalist at the 2024 Bloomberg Green Docs Film Festival.

The documentary was made possible by a National Geographic Society.

Ciril Jazbec was one of the first photographers in the world to travel to Iceland with the Leica SL3. There he impressively documented the work of geologist Helga Kristín Torfadóttir.

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For this story, Ciril was asked to photograph two Michelin star chef Ana Ros Stogjan for The New York Times. The feature is part of ‘Transforming Spaces’ an ongoing series about women in leadership.

In I’m Not Alone we get to know the touching and empowering story of Iranian artist Azadeh Hashemzadeh. In 2018 Azadeh had to leave her home and thriving photography business to seek asylum in Slovenia with her husband.

How do you start again with the strength to dream anew? Azadeh’s undefeated faith in creativity guides her to meet a new community who help her write a new story.