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The overconsumption and waste of cheap clothing, garments often worn only a few times (sometimes never at all), and then discarded. For this new work the artist has recovered waste clothing from 121 locations around the coast of Britain, presenting them as unique cyanotype images. The project was inspired by the work of Anna Atkins, a Victorian botanist and photographer whose groundbreaking book, ‘Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, 1843,’ Barker has based her own work on, but rather than showing natural algae and seaweed as Atkins did, Barker chose to show the clothing and garments recovered from the same British shorelines.

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Mandy Barker’s work has been published widely including in; National Geographic Magazine, TIME Magazine, The Guardian, The New Scientist, The British Journal of Photography, VOGUE, and to illustrate key academic and scientific research papers about current plastic research. Her work has been exhibited internationally including MoMA Museum of Modern Art, the United Nations headquarters in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum London among others.

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