Mandy Barker

Mandy Barker

Mandy Barker is a British Photography, who is known for working with marine plastic debris. She has worked alongside scientists to bring more awareness to the large amount of plastic that is floating around in our oceans today.

The image to the left here is a photo out of her series called "Soup". The images in this series all show the numerous number of plastics that she and other scientists found in our oceans. The layout of all of these plastics can almost be compared to what looks like an image out of space, due to the black background, with all the many different coloured plastics within the image. 

The same can be said with this image too, although there's a larger amount of plastic in this photo, which contains all sorts of different sizes and shapes. The image here is still a part of the "Soup" series that Mandy Barker created, and all of the images in the series- like shown in these two here- show us the disturbing reality of just how much plastic we potentially have in our oceans.

In Mandy Barker's series "Soup", we can relate many of these images to the idea of " Fragmented Time ". This term meaning a moment in time, that shows everything happening in a split second. The images in this series all show this term, due to the large amounts of plastic being captured in a moment. These images show us the frightening truth of just how much plastic we could have in our oceans, since the amounts of plastic debris in these images only show the smallest effect of what human waste can do to our planet.