Sydney Theatre Company Presents Portraits from the Edge 4/20-5/19

Sydney Theatre Company presents a free exhibition of photography by Jon Lewis, titled Portraits from The Edge: Putting a Face to Climate Change. The exhibition, documenting the landscape and people of Kiribati, is at The Wharf Gallery from 20 April until 19 May 2010.

The small Republic of Kiribati, a series of atolls situated in the Equatorial Pacific, is slowly and surely going down. Storm surges, freakish waves, salination of fresh water wells and lands, un-predictable weather and tidal increases, are all contributing to the country's physical demise. 30 to 40 years is all they have left. The people of Kiribati remain now, literally on the very edge, as the most vulnerable of peoples, living with climate change.

The exhibition will be open from 20 April through 19 May. The gallery is open from 10.30am to 10.30pm daily (closed Sundays). The Wharf Gallery is located at Sydney Theatre Company, Pier 4, Hickson Rd in Walsh Bay. Admission is free. For more information, visit http://sydneytheatre.com.au/.

Photographer and activist Jon Lewis first exhibited in 1974. He was a member of Sydney's "Yellow House" in the early 70's, went on to make experimental video with "Bush Video", and in 1977 was a founder of Greenpeace Australia, which led a successful campaign to end the slaughter of whales in Australia. Portraits from The Edge is presented by Sydney Theatre Company as part of the Greening the Wharf Program and is also part of the Head on Photo Festival. For more information about the photographer visit www.jonnylewis.org.