What Is Anthropocene?

Anthropocene is the idea that humans are moving into more of a world with domination, and competition, in a negative way. While in the process harming other innocent species, like fish and birds. It is an aim to spread awareness in a creative way, using art and photography and even science. This is a way of showing people the horrible things we unconsciously do daily, in a beautiful and touching way. It is more to say, “what now”. Not “look what we have done” as this shines it more in a negative blaming light, looking into the future not the past.

Who is Mandy Barker to Anthropocene?

Mandy Barker is an award winning photographer and you could say an influencer, who works photographing marine life plastics. She creates unique imagery using a smart method which creates an artistic yet appealing affect. For example:

This is where she requested people to find some footballs no one used, whether that be in the sea, abandoned on the beach or even in the streets. She does this to motivate people to take action in an artistic appeal.

She is very well known when it comes to bringing awareness towards this plastic pollution, even having her art work being shown in news papers like Time magazine or in areas like vogue, even working with science to spread the awareness and reduce plastics especially in marine life.

I like this idea of showing people the pollution of plastics, through remorse and sympathy because it creates a bigger impact on people spreading their awareness to more hidden things, that still occur. I also like her method of taking images of single object plastics, not any plastics but the ones found in animals that have died from the harm we unconsciously done. This gives me ideas on top of my idea, which will mainly be to take images of cigarette buds, found almost everywhere. And to take almost a gallery of cigarette’s and even the buds I find on the floor, and adjust them to my liking.