Plastic not so fantastic

Take a quick glance at Mandy Barker’s stunning work and you’ll see a thing of beauty. But the truth behind these incredible shots is a sad testament to humanity’s impact on the planet and its oceans.

Mandy has been working with marine plastic debris for the past decade, for which she has received global recognition, been published and exhibited dozens of times, and been awarded many major plaudits. She has joined several environmental research expeditions across the globe, contributing important information to archives that are accessible to explorers and scholars.

Among other recognitions, she’s been shortlisted for the Prix Pictet prize, nominated for the Magnum Foundation Fund and the Deutsche Börse Foundation Photography Prize. She received the 2018 National Geographic Society Grant for Research and Exploration and in 2012 was awarded the Royal Photographic Society’s