Mandy Barker

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]

Mandy Baker FRPS
Born	1964
Nationality	English
Known for	photographic artist of plastic pollution
Movement	Environmentalism, contemporary [photography] [art]
Website	www.mandy-barker.com

Biography

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

Solo

• 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

• 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

• 2012 The Royal Photographic Society's Environmental Bursary^[10]
• 2018 National Geographic Society Grant for Research and Exploration.^[1]

Publications

Monographs

• 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)

• Civilization: The Way We Live Now published by Thames & Hudson