Sebastian Wins Gold Medal from the Photographic Society of America

January 21, 2014 3:09pm

The jury of the 2013 Arctic Award awarded Sebastian a gold medal on behalf of the Photographic Society of America (PSA). The Arctic Award specializes in Polar photography. This is Sebastian’s second win: in 2012, the FIAP (Federation International de l’Art Photographic) had awarded him a medal for the same competition. The winning image below depicts a storm on the Greenland ice cap, with winds reaching 80 miles per hour, during Sebastian and Eric’s record setting south to north crossing on skis and kites.Storm on the Greenland Ice

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Sebastian listed in the 2013 Men of the Year Issue of Coco Eco Magazine

January 5, 2014 8:23pm

This winter, the magazine Coco Eco published a feature called “Leaders from the Heart” honoring “a few good men for their dedication to causes greater than the self”. Sebastian was featured as one of the magazine’s Men Of The Year 2013, next to Paul Watson, Bobby Kennedy and Danny Glover.

You can find the article here:

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Sebastian gives Keynote in Venice, Italy for Herbalife EMEA conference

December 21, 2013 6:29pm

Sebastian speaks in Venice for Herbalife EMEA about goal setting, health, conviction and perseverance! Merry Christmas everyone!DSC_6947 copy1

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Into The Cold now available on Netflix

November 21, 2013 5:21pm

As of November, Sebastian’s North Pole adventure film, Into The Cold–A Journey of the Soulcan be seen on demand on Netflix. The film chronicles Sebastian and partner Keith Heger’s centennial reach of the North Pole to commemorate Admiral Peary and team’s 1909 mission. The film premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival and went on to win multiple awards internationally. The Hollywood Reporter called it one of the five Must-See-Films of the festival. It has been released internationally since.

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Paris Photo November 13-16 2013 at the Grand Palais

November 17, 2013 5:00pm

Paris Photo is the most prestigious photo gathering in the world. Held each year at the Grand Palais in Paris, the show attracts hundreds of qualifying galleries and over 500,000 visitors. Sebastian’s work was on sale with his Munich gallery Bernheimer Fine Art. The photo below Greenland Sky One 2010 sold to a French collector.

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Sebastian Appears on Take Part Live

October 24, 2013 1:26pm

On October 22, Sebastian appeared on a TV panel for Participant Media’s Take Part Live w/Kevin Hand, Planetary Scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, to discuss climate change at the poles.

For some (odd?) reason, Take Part  will not release the full segment. They did however allow this clip. Enjoy!
http://video.takepart.com/previews/18CHzrzf-hZng8bxh

Sebastian with Cara and Jacob

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Sebastian hosts the European hour for Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Climate Reality

October 23, 2013 1:14pm

On October 22nd, Sebastian hosted and moderated the European hour for Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Climate Reality, focusing on the cost of carbon in Europe. The hour examined the 500 year flood in Germany in the spring of 2013, the adaptation programs of the Netherlands to rising sea levels, and the 2010 wildfires in Russia that sparked the Arab Spring.

The hour featured short documentaries on rising infrastructural cost from climate related events in Europe and around the globe; it featured a panel on the rising cost of carbon with Dr. Rosina Bierbaum (University of Michigan), Maggie Fox (President & CEO of Climate Reality), Marta Szigeti Bonifert (Environment Committee of the Hungarian Business Leaders Forum), and Cors Beekman (Room for the River, Netherlands) with Sebastian moderating; the hour closed with an address by Vice President Al Gore. You can watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDiOc51LLMYCost of Carbon: Europe

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Gagosian Gallery and Sebastian Copeland Join forces for the NRDC

October 4, 2013 8:26pm

The Gagosian Gallery in Berverly Hills teamed up with Sebastian for a special showing of his polar images to benefit the environmental non-profit the NRDC. The gallery show highlighted the threatened polar environment while 100% of the sales went to the NRDC for their advocacy campaigns on climate change.

Joel Reynolds, Western director of the NRDC, gave a short talk about the organization’s work, and Sebastian, a long time board member of the NGO Global Green USA  shared his experiences shooting in the polar regions, and their significance to the health of the planet.

A special limited NRDC edition of 3 was created for this occasion. The image below sold out of its edition. It remains available for private sale in two different sizes.

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Sebastian’s Photographs shown alongside Horst P. Horst, Irvin Penn Bernheimer’s new Platinum Prints Exhibit

September 19, 2013 7:24pm

September 19, 2013 Munich, Germany. The Bernheimer Gallery in Munich unveils Platinum, the gallery’s new exhibit focusing on platinum prints from masters old and new. Exhibited are works by Herb Ritts, Horst P. Horst, Irvin Penn, Mark Seliger and Sebastian Copeland’s Greenland and Antarctica platinum prints. The show opens September 20th 2013 and runs through October 31st at Brienner Strasse 7, 80333 in Munich, Germany Displayed below: Sastrugi One, S72˚37 E010˚37, Antarctica 2011  Platinum Print Edition 1/6 Sastrugi One, Antarctica 2011

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Sebastian on a panel with Vice President Al Gore for an hour of Climate Reality

July 31, 2013 12:29pm

Sebastian participated in a televised panel on climate change called 24 Hours of Climate Reality. The panel examined climate transformations taking place in the Arctic and their global consequences. Vice president Al Gore, Dr.Stephen Pekar, adventurer Doug Stoup and other joined the panel. You can view the segment here:

http://climaterealityproject.org/24hours2012/live-broadcast/hour-05-the-arctic/

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