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The exhibition running till the end of this month was officially opened on Thursday last week at the National Gallery in Bulawayo and comprises  25 photographs which interpret the impact of humans on the environment.

Gauss said the threat to the environment posed by human activity is one of the biggest challenges the world is facing today.

In this exhibition, he presents his works through photography which is not abstract and provides easy interpretation to his works.

The French born artiste says the title While We Wait, which translates to En Attendant in French was based on the assumption that people tend to wait for the worst to take place before they combat a problem.

“The title of the exhibition En Attendant suggests that we wait for something to happen, rather than taking some form of action.

“The exhibition aims to question the individual, where one stands in relation to what is happening to our environment,” said Gauss.

The photographs on show are pregnant with rhetoric and answers to how human activities affect the lives and health of society.

In one of the photographs, Gauss pictures a child struggling to get space to play due to litter which is sprawled all over the environment.

The child has no option, but to play on top of the garbage posing a health hazard.

He also showcased penguins in a dam with just a small piece of land to settle as a result of litter thrown into the dam by unconcerned people.

The exhibition hosted by the National Gallery and Alliance Francaise also features an experimental video by Zambian born Nigel Hullet.

The video shows how the humans activities have slowly but surely affected the environment and the lives of other creatures.

The host Eric Gauss was born in Paris in 1966 and studied photography at Ecole Superiere de Photo where he gained a lot of experience as a photographic assistant. Gauss moved to Zimbabwe in 1996 together with his wife and on arrival took up the position of photographic editor for the magazine Travel Africa.

After working for five years he decided to become a freelance photographer and travels across Africa.
Some of his works appear in the several projects that include Spirit of A Woman and A Journey Through the Sculpture of Lazarus Takawira.