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Images of London after climate change 'are lazy', say refugee groups Museum of London hoped the photomontages by Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones would show how climate change is 'not just something happening to other people'Wind turbines lining the Mall; a shanty town at the foot of Nelson's column; the Thames frozen under Tower Bridge; and a nuclear power station in Kew gardens. These are some of the artistic visions of a future London loosely inspired by the predictions of climate science.The provocative images are part of the Museum of London's London Futures show, a series of 14 photomotage pictures exploring how the capital might be affected by global warming.They are intended to provoke debate and help people to connect with the implications of climate change, said Antony Robbins, the museum's head of communications. "I think that many of us still think climate change is something that happens to other people, living thousands of miles from our shores. So I was also really pleased to see the potential this exhibition has for connecting with wider audiences. It even proved popular with the tabloid newspapers, which don't often cover museum stories."He said he hoped people would come to the museum to see the images for themselves, so they could decide whether the display "adds to the climate change debate or simply clouds the issues".But the pictures have been sharply criticised by groups representing refugees and asylum seekers who say they present a negative image of migrants. Vaughan Jones, the chief executive of Praxis, a London-based charity that provides practical support for displaced people, said: "Producing sensationalist pictures which fall back on cheap stereotypes of refugees do not help anyone's cause. The issue is too serious for this inaccurate treatment."Jonathan Ellis, policy director at the Refugee Council, called them "lazy and unhelpful". "We need fresh and creative messages, and a fair and rational debate based on the facts," he said.The digitally manipulated images in the show were created Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones, who work at London-based communications company GMJ. The museum says the photomontages bring "home the full impact of global warming, food scarcity, rising sea levels and how all Londoners will need to innovate and adapt to survive".Hannah Smith, refugee project manager for the Climate Outreach and Information Network, said the images were not realistic depictions of climate change's impact on the displacement of people. "The actual patterns of migration are far more likely to be the movement of people inside existing national borders or, in the case of the UK, from within the European Union. To suggest that there will be mass migration from the [global] south is misleading and feeds xenophobia," she said.Graves and Madoc-Jones had not submitted comment at the time of publishing this article. The display runs until 6 March 2011, and the illustrators are giving a talk on their motivations and inspiration behind it on 2 November at the Museum of London.ON THE WEB• Read George Marshall on why the exhibition feeds prejudice• In pictures: The 14 images from the displayClimate changeMuseumsArtAdam Vaughanguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |