Mandy Barker (UK) uses long exposure photographs of marine plastic debris. The work is inspired by nineteenth century marine biologist, John Vaughan Thompson, who collected plankton samples in Cork Harbour, Ireland- the same site where these images were shot. Today, microplaslic particles swarming the water column are ingested by plankton, thereby entering the food supplies of larger marine and nonmarine animals, including humans
DREAMING OF PLASTIC FREE OCEANS
