INFERNO is a series by Leslie Hossack that combines art with scientific data to explore the real and urgent effects of climate change that threaten ecosystems and communities. This work highlights measurable and growing impacts on our planet: From nuclear apocalypse, wildfires, shrinking glaciers, rising sea levels and global temperatures.

Leslie Hossack lives in Ottawa and considers Vancouver her home away from home. She pursued photography and the visual arts as a second career, studying at the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa and Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver. Leslie’s photographs have been exhibited across Canada, from Vancouver to Newfoundland, as well as in the United States. She is the author of ten books, and her images have appeared in publications in Canada, the US, and the UK, including the National Gallery of Canada Magazine.

Her work is held in private collections both at home and abroad, as well as in numerous public collections, including Library and Archives Canada; Canadian War Museum; Diefenbunker Canada’s Cold War Museum; City of Vancouver; Nikkei National Museum in Burnaby; National Churchill Library and Center in Washington DC; Center for Creative Photography in Tucson Arizona; Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge UK; and the libraries of the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, David Collection in Copenhagen, and Hirschsprung Collection in Copenhagen.