Ashley Cooper is a British photographer with a particular interest in documenting the effects of global warming.
His 2013 photograph of a polar bear that had starved to death was published in The Guardian and elsewhere and called attention to the effect of the lack of sea ice in the Arctic.
[3] Cooper won the climate change category of the 2010 Environmental Photographer of the Year,[2] and was one of the judges for the 2018 competition.
[4] In 2016 he published Images from a Warming Planet: One man's mission to document climate change around the world (Global Warming Images: ISBN 978-1526205926), a large-format book containing 495 photographs, the result of a 13-year journey through 33 countries.
[3][5] He is married to Jill and lives in Ambleside, Cumbria, where he has been a member of the Langdale/Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team for over 20 years.