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In the new book by artist Mandy Barker, British algae photographs: cyanotype imperfectionsShe uses the same technique as the botanist and the pioneer photographer Anna Atkins To draw attention to the current pollution crisis against our oceans. Like Atkins almost two centuries earlier, Barker has traveled the British coast for the items to imagine. Rather than finding natural beauty, however, she saw clothes thrown about washing on the beaches. Her first discovery, she said, looked like algae. “It was a kind of pretty piece of fabric.” But as parts of jackets, dresses, shoes, underwear and school uniforms were starting to appear, the extent of the problem quickly appeared to him.
