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MARK EDWARDS is one of the most widely published photogra-
phers in the world. He was profoundly affected by listening to
Krishnamurti when he was at art school in the 1960s and this
influenced his approach to photography. He is now recognized as
the first to specialize in photographing environmental issues and
has travelled to over 100 countries to bring alive our “headlong
collision with nature.”
In 1990, he collaborated with the eminent scientist and philoso-
pher, David Bohm, on the book, Changing Consciousness: Exploring
the Hidden Source of the Social, Political, and Environmental Crises
Facing our World. In 2004 he produced Hard Rain, an exhibition,
book and film, with Bob Dylan. It has been seen by some fifteen
million people around the world and has attracted huge public and
critical acclaim, along with the support and endorsement of polit-
ical and environmental leaders around the world.
Mark has presented his illustrated talk at hundreds of univer-
sities and schools around the world, at the United Nations Head-
quarters in New York, to MPs in Europe, to the National Assembly
in Cuba, at prisons, to IPCC scientists and at music festivals includ-
ing Glastonbury in the UK.
All his works reflect the urgent need for a radically new, world-
wide approach and introduce his audience to Krishnamurti’s
message that this can only come about through the freeing of the
mind from a crippling servitude to self-centredness, expressed col-
lectively in a destructive adherence to nationalism and sectarian
beliefs.

FRIEDRICH GROHE was born in Germany. During the last three
years of the Second World War, he attended school in Switzerland.
After further studies and working for several years in the family’s
brass faucet company, he was appointed CEO by his father. When
the majority of the company was sold, he left the business world

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