Description
Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals encapsulates in miniature the much larger environmental problems of an imperfect world. This work presents a unique collection of plankton specimens related to pioneering discoveries made by naturalist JV Thompson in Cork Harbour during the 1800s. These recently found specimens are deceptive, and mysteriously conceal their true origin.
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The Author
Based in England, UK, Mandy Barker is an international award winning photographer whose work involving marine plastic debris has received global recognition. Her series Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals was shortlisted for the 2017 Prix Pictet, the global award in photography and sustainability, and the publication nominated for the 2018 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. Barker’s work has been published widely including in TIME, National Geographic, Wired, The Financial Times, The Guardian, VICE, Smithsonian, and in numerous photographic publications. She has exhibited worldwide including at The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Photographers Gallery and Somerset House in London, United Nations Headquarters and The Aperture Foundation in New York, and The Science and Technology Park in Hong Kong. She was awarded the LensCulture Earth Award in 2015 and The Royal Photographic Society’s Environmental Bursary in 2012 which enabled her to join scientists for a research expedition in the tsunami debris field in the Pacific Ocean. In 2018 she received the National Geographic Society Grant for Research and Exploration.
www.mandy-barker.com
Reviews + Press
See reviews of the trade edition book Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals
More for Beyond Drifting: Digest Edition:
Polka Magazine #44
Special Notes
*12 COOL PHOTO BOOKS OF 2018 selected by PhotoQ Bookshop, Amsterdam
* Photobook considered ‘dear’ to the collection of Gabriela Cendoya-Bergareche 2018
*TOP 20 RECOMMENDED PHOTOBOOKS from UNSEEN Amsterdam Book Market 2018, selected by Richard Sporleder of Café Lehmitz, Cologne
Beyond Drifting: Digest Edition is held in the following collections:
AGO Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives (Toronto, CA)
Duke University – Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Durham, NC)
École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (Arles, FR)
The Library Project (Dublin, IE)