Octagon Speakers

As an award-winning photographer, author, lecturer, and environmental activist, Sebastian Copeland has made the fight for the protection of the environment his life’s work, in a way few have imagined.

As an international speaker on climate crisis for over a decade, Sebastian has addressed audiences at the United Nations, the World Affairs Council, the General Assembly on Climate in New Orleans, the George Eastman House, Google Headquarters and to Apple’s Senior Design Team amongst others. He has appeared on Larry King Live, NPR, Air America, and Al Gore’s Current TV, as a champion of environmental causes.

His early photography ranged from fashion and advertising to album covers and celebrities—with a noted style mixing Madison Ave. sensibility with downtown pop. Subjects included Elijah Wood, Kate Bosworth, Salma Hayek, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Phil Collins, Sandra Bullock, and Orlando Bloom. Amongst his various film studio clients are Disney, Universal, Paramount and Warner Bros. Sebastian has shot movie posters for Goal!, The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift, and Herbie—Fully Loaded, and the international press for such films as Pirates of the Caribbean, Troy and Seabiscuit.

In 2010, Sebastian founded Sedna Foundation, an organization with the goal of the preservation of the Arctic regions. In November 2011, Sebastian will embark on the Antarctic Centennial Crossing, a 4000 kilometer trek to the South Pole, commemorating the first race to the South Pole in 1911, using it as an opportunity to provide research for Sedna Foundation.