About

Teo Ormond-Skeaping, (b.1987, Uk) lives and works in London, UK. He is an artist working with a combination of photography, artist’s film, virtual reality, installation and research. Since 2012 he has been working on extensive interdisciplinary photography, artist’s film, virtual reality, installation and research projects exploring the political ecology and governmentality of the climate crisis as well as the political and cultural critique of the Anthropocene. Recurring themes include climate coloniality, necropolitics, riskscapes, Slow Violence, future scenarios, migration and displacement.

Projects include: Common But Differentiated Responsibilities (2026), Future News (2021), Future Scenarios (2020), Coalostalgia (2020), Imperfect Meshes (2019), Geohistory (2016) and Feedback Loops (2016).  

He is the writer, director, producer, cinematographer, editor, and sound designer of the award winning feature length film (2023) “You Never Know One Day You Too Might Become a Refugee” in partnership with the Platform on Disaster Displacement and Displacement Uncertain Journeys and the Embassy of Foreign Artists.

Exhibitions include: FotoDoks (2023), Month of Photography in Minsk (2020), Fotobok Festival Oslo (2020), Photomonth Krakow (2020), Noorderlicht Festival of Photography: Taxed To The Max (2019), Ci.CLO Bienal Fotografia do Porto (2019), Kunst HausWien: Museum Hundertwasser (2019), Unseen, Amsterdam (2018), Fotofestiwal, Łódź (2018)

Awards, scholarships, residencies and visiting researcher placements include: Artists Make Space (2025), Embassy of Foreign Artists : Art and Citizenship (2021), ICCCAD Visiting Researcher (2017),  COAL Prize on Disaster and Displacement (2019), Culture and Climate Change: Future Scenarios (2016), Dolbey Travel Scholarship (2013), Red Mansion Art Prize (2012). 

Publications include: “Decolonizing the Future”, Trigger Magazine (2021), “Future Scenarios: COVID-19 And Climate Change”,  BoomSaloon (2020), “Lost and Damaged: How Memories of the Future Can Help Us Overcome Post-Extractivist Stress Disorder?”, Anthropocenes (2020), “Anthroposcenery and Memories of the Future”, Culture and Climate Change: Future Scenarios (2019).
 

Lectures and talks include the United Nations Peace Talks (2021), Musée LaM, COP 2 Etudiante, COP 25, the Financial Times Weekend Festival, Wilderness Festival, and the Royal Geographical Society.

Lectures at universities include: University College London, Royal College of Art, Falmouth University, Reading University, Piet Zwart Institute and Edinburgh Napier University.

Conference contributions include: Development Days 2025 Conference, Migration & Democracy in a Time of Climate Crisis (2024), Anthropocenes 2020, The Anticipation Conference 2018, IDOC’s 2018, and 2 Degrees Festival (2017).

His work is included in national collections including the V&A Collection and private collections.

He is the co-founder of Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage.

He frequently collaborates with Lena Dobrowolska as well as a vast network of researchers, advocates and experts across a diverse range of disciplines working on the climate crisis and other environmental and human rights issues.