"Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals is an astounding piece of work, one in which Barker takes the most humdrum of things - plastic detrius - inserts it into an intriguing, multilayered historical narrative, lends its physical form a gossamer, airy beauty, and presents the whole to us in the form of a book. Not just any book, but a replica of an old science publication from the 1800s, including mould-spotted pages, a library lending form and specimen labels." - Lucy Davies, V&amp;A Magazine May 2017 Now, 170 years after Atkins, another British woman has produced an important photobook that echoes Victorian-era science even as it exposes a contemporary environmental crisis. Mandy Barker's Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals similarly occupies that liminal space where art and science converge, and its impeccable presentation exemplifies how book design can extend content. - Laura M. André, review on Photo-eye "Mandy Barker's work on plastic has been developing for some time. In its latest advance, she looks at micro-particles of plastic as a species of a lunatic plankton, floating about the sea, and she has included a rather wonderful pastiche book of old-fashioned science as a way of getting us into her subject." - Francis Hodgson, Photography critic "Her images could be mistaken for Victorian glass-plate photographs; in fact they are ornate, long-exposure studies of the plastic debris that pollutes beaches in and around Cobh in Cork Harbour, Ireland." - Tom Seymour, British Journal of Photography "Beyond Drifting is a clever critique of a massive environmental problem - and, in focusing in on one small area of Ireland in particular, Barker highlights a global issue." - Mark Sinclair, Creative Review

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Un catalogue complet des œuvres photographiques de Mandy Barker exposant la crise de la pollution plastique dans les océans du monde. Cette enquête approfondie présente des séries réalisées au cours des dix dernières années, publiées pour coïncider avec des expositions personnelles en 2019 et comprenant des œuvres d'INDEFINITE, SOUP, SHOAL, PENALTY, Hong Kong Soup: 1826 et Beyond Drifting. De nombreuses reproductions des carnets de croquis de Mandy offrent un aperçu des coulisses de son processus de réflexion pendant le développement du projet. Préoccupé par les effets des débris plastiques marins, le travail photographique de Barker a atteint un public mondial par le biais d'expositions internationales, de sensibilisation éducative, de reportages médiatiques et d'autres moyens. Son objectif est de sensibiliser le public à la crise environnementale en utilisant des visuels esthétiquement attrayants pour communiquer sur la recherche scientifique en évolution. Cette publication est présentée par le professeur Richard Thompson OBE, un scientifique marin renommé et directeur du Marine Institute de l’Université de Plymouth. Son travail a contribué à la législation sur les microbilles dans les cosmétiques et autres formes de pollution plastique. D'autres textes comprennent une préface de Mandy Barker et un essai, Picturing Plastic Oceans, de Liz Wells, professeur en culture photographique à l'Université de Plymouth. Barker donne également un aperçu de la fabrication de ses images grâce à une étude approfondie de ses carnets de croquis de processus personnels.

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