[Exhibition & panel discussion] Framing Climate Justice

On 3 December 2025, from 18:00, the Asser Institute and the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) will present 'Framing Climate Justice', an exhibition that visually investigates the entangled consequences of our current global system.

Three emerging photographers, Emilie Tizien, Jamie Smith and Tori McCrea, spent 3 months within the Asser Institute, collaborating closely with legal scholars to create works that translate how international and European law shapes the daily lives of The Hague’s residents to visual stories.

The work of three artists-in-residence acts as a powerful report from the front lines of this struggle:

• Jamie Smith investigates the global trade in used cars, following how Europe’s discarded vehicles are shipped to Africa under the label of ‘sustainability’. His work reveals how environmental responsibility in the Global North can mean pollution and displacement elsewhere.
• Emilie Tizien brings the climate crisis close to home, documenting Dutch houses damaged by fluctuating groundwater levels. Her photographs expose the consequences of inaction and question who bears responsibility when the ground itself becomes unstable.
• Tori McCrea collaborates with the sea to explore what justice might mean beyond the human world. Using salt and seawater as co-creators, she asks: if the ocean could speak, what would it demand of us?

Following the exhibition opening, artists and researchers will gather for a panel discussion. Together, we will explore questions at the heart of both art and international law. Can the ‘public interest’ survive in an age of ecological breakdown? Whose stories get told, and whose remain unseen? And what might justice look like when we begin to listen to the planet itself?

Programme
18:00 — Doors open & exhibition viewing
19:00 — Panel discussion
20:00 — End of panel discussion, followed by a reception and continued exhibition viewing