Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781915423795)

Mandy Barker is a photographic artist whose work involving marine plastic debris for more than 14 years, has received global recognition. Her work has been published internationally by outlets and organisations including National Geographic, TIME, The Guardian, Financial Times, Smithsonian, New Scientist, The Explorer's Journal, UNESCO, British Journal of Photography, VOGUE, and the World Wildlife Fund. Her work has been exhibited world-wide including at MoMA and the United Nations headquarters, New York: V&A Museum, London, and the Science & Technology Park, Hong Kong. Barker was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Award SPACE (2017), nominated for the Magnum Foundation Fund, LOBA Award, and the Deutsche Börse Foundation Photography Prize 2020. She is a recipient of the 2018 National Geographic Society Grant for Research and Exploration. Her first monograph was Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals (Overlapse, 2017) followed by Altered Ocean (Overlapse, 2019). In 2023 Barker was awarded the International Understanding Through Photography Award (IUTP) by the Photographic Society of America. This award annually recognises an accomplished photographer whose images and their presentation have clearly contributed to international understanding among people.