Later this year, the Sault’s Dr. Roberta Bondar will be at the Art Gallery of Algoma to present a photographic exhibition of her years' long work leading an international bird migratory research project in collaboration with NASA called ‘Space for Birds’
Canada’s first woman to go to space is still living out her passion for flight – but in an entirely unique and environmentally-driven way.
“It’s an inspirational message,” she says. “This is to be some way of making people be inspired by the feats these birds go through in order to survive, and what we can do to help them continue to live.” “We gave them all kinds of constraints,” she says. “Some photos we wanted the edge of the earth in it, others we didn’t want straight down views all the time. We also wanted high oblique shots and certain percentages of clouds, light, and sun.”
“It’s not very many species when you consider how many birds there are,” she says. “These species are symbolic of birds that migrate, the habitats they need, and how things change.” “For me, it’s about looking at life and how life uses a planet, how flexible these creatures are, and how flexible life is on this planet to be able to shift,” she says. “It’s only 10,000 years ago since we had the last ice age. Our lifetime is so short that we have a really short memory, and so we think the earth has stopped evolving for us.”
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