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Background information
"'Altered Ocean' by Mandy BARKER is a comprehensive catalogue of her photographic works representing the crisis of plastic pollution in the world's oceans.
Content
This in-depth survey, 'Altered Ocean' by Mandy BARKER features series created over the past ten years, and released to coincide with solo exhibtions in 2019. Including the series 'Indefinite', 'Soup', 'Shoal', 'Penalty', 'Hong Kong Soup. 1826', and 'Beyond Drifting. Imperfectly Known Animals'. Numerous reproductions from Mandy BARKER's sketchbooks offer a behind the scenes look into her thought process during project development.
Additional information: the out-of-print- photo volume 'Altered Ocean' by Mandy BARKER also features an introduction by internationally renowned marine scientist Professor Richard Thompson OBE, director of the Marine Institute in Plymouth, a foreword by Mandy BARKER, and an essay 'Picturing Plastic Oceans' by Liz Wells, Professor of Photographic Culture at the Univeristy of Plymouth.
In the press
"Dedicating her work to raise awareness and activism about the global crisis of ocean debris, Barker combines engaging and shocking photographs, sketches, and scientific research to produce some of the most urgently consequential contemporary art of this century." (© Photoeye, 2019)