@article{intel:/content/journals/10.1386/jem_00076_1, author = "Simonsen, Anne Hege", title = "The future in our hands: A sustainable stock photo reading", journal= "Journal of Environmental Media", year = "2022", volume = "3", number = "Seeing the (In)Justice of Sustainability: Visualizing Inequality at the Centre of Climate Change Communication", pages = "133-137", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00076_1", url = "https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jem_00076_1", publisher = "Intellect", issn = "2632-2471", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "visual meaning", keywords = "stock photo", keywords = "visual tropes", keywords = "generic imagery", keywords = "photo credibility", keywords = "environmental sustainability", keywords = "photography", abstract = "Stock photos are generic, ready-made visual conceptualizations of everyday myths. They have low credibility among audiences, yet they are proliferating in visual communication, including journalistic media. A close reading of one of the dominant visual tropes related to sustainability, a white woman’s hands cupping a young, green plant, suggests that these pre-formatted images contain tacit layers of meaning that are uncritically anthropocentric and accepting of inequalities.", }