who is he:

Barry Rosenthal is a fine art photographer who collects rubbish from beaches and make a new purpose for it. He studied at the Dayton art institute in Ohio focusing on photography, as well as going to different workshops in New York. He take then rubbish back to his studio and lays it out on black card and takes images of it as seen below. Each of his image have a specific theme, colour, shape, or its intended use. Rosenthal use his work as a message to people about our ecosystem becoming damaged and polluted etc. More than five trillion pieces of plastic are already in the oceans and now we are adding around nine million tones each year. This is his main focus of his work, telling people about what he has discovered and what he is doing in order to try and help. Many of the pieces of plastic Barry uses have either lost their original shape, colour etc, showing who they have been on a journey before he finds them and give them a new purpose. He likes his images to have a narrative behind them in the hope that he will catch viewers attention while creating some unique images.

some of his work: