Their subjects include the black market in endangered species -LRB- Patrick Brown -RRB- ; the Inupiat people of Alaska , among the first victims of global warming -LRB- Gilles Mingasson -RRB- ; attempts to exact remediation from ChevronTexaco for waste disposal practices in the Ecuadorean Amazon -LRB- Lou Dematteis and Kayana Szymczak -RRB- ; the devastation of Katrina -LRB- Vincent Laforet , whose photographs were taken on assignment for The New York Times -RRB- ; and protests against logging in roadless American forests -LRB- Christopher LaMarca -RRB- .