Mandy Barker
Mandy Baker FRPS | |
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| Born | 1964 |
| Nationality | English |
| Known for | photographic artist of plastic pollution |
| Movement | Environmentalism, contemporary [photography] [art] |
| Website | www |
Mandy Barker is a British photographer. She is mostly known for work with marine plastic debris. Barker has worked alongside scientists in hopes of bringing awareness to the mass amount of plastic that is floating around in our oceans.[1]
Biography
[edit]Mandy Barker graduated from De Montfort University in England with MA in photography also studied at Leeds Metropolitan University. After graduation, she started to investigate marine plastic debris. Barker mostly collaborates with scientists, aiming to raise public awareness of plastic pollution in the oceans.[2] She received a National Geographic Society Grant for Research and Exploration in 2018. Barker was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Award in 2017, as well as nominated for Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2018. Mandy Barker was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2019. Mandy Barker lives in Leeds.
Exhibitions
[edit]Solo
[edit]- 2018 "Mandy Barker: Hong Kong Soup", Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester[3]
- 2019 "Sea of Artifacts". Fotografiska, Stockholm[4]
- 2019 "Mandy Barker: Altered Ocean Exhibition", Royal Photographic Society House, Bristol[5]
- 2019 "Not in my planet", Science Museum, Trento.[6]
Group
[edit]- 2001 "Snapshot of Britain", The Photographers' Gallery, London[1]
- 2011 "Blurb PBN 2011 Awards", Aperture Foundation, New York
- 2019 "Civilization: The Way We Live Now". National Gallery of Victoria.[7]
- 2019 "Civilisation: The Way We Live Now", UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing[8]
- 2019 "A History of Photography: Daguerreotype to Digital" Victoria and Albert Museum, London[9]
Awards
[edit]- 2012 The Royal Photographic Society's Environmental Bursary[10]
- 2018 National Geographic Society Grant for Research and Exploration.[1]
Publications
[edit]Monographs
[edit]- 2019 Altered Ocean published by Overlapse
- 2018 Beyond Drifting: Digest Edition published by Overlapse
- 2017 Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals published by Overlapse (Out of Print)
Catalogues (with other artists)
[edit]- Civilization: The Way We Live Now published by Thames & Hudson
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Ong, Jyni (26 September 2018). "Mandy Barker's photography is a beautiful and shocking commentary on our excessive plastic consumption". itsnicethat.com. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ Amy Cruz, Claire Thompson (12 June 2019). "Ripple plastic: The unintended life of plastic at sea". The Peninsula Press. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ "Mandy Barker: Hong Kong Soup". cfcca.org.uk. 2 October 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ "Sea of Artifacts by Mandy Barker". The Fotografiska. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ Asmaa Jama, Sumaya Hassan-Murphy (15 April 2019). "Waves of Plastic: Behind the lens with photographer Mandy Barker". The Rife Magazine. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ "Not in my planet Fotografie di Mandy Barker". muse.it. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ "Civilization: the way we live now". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ "Civilisation: The Way We Live Now at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art". The Modu Magazine. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ "A History of Photography: Daguerreotype to Digital". vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ "Mandy Barker: Altered Ocean Exhibition". The Royal Photographic Society. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
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