infocus #49 March 2018 Beyond Seeing: A response to Mandy Barker's Beyond Drifting; Imperfectly Known Animals

DOI: 10.22443/rms.inf.1.158

 Mandy Barker has created images that borrow a visual language from scientific imaging techniques. The images are seemingly of microscopic ‘plankton’ obtained with a microscope.

But the objects are neither microscopic in size nor have they been photographed through a microscope, nor are they the organic planktonic animals as indicated by the book title either.

The objects - or ‘specimen’ - are large pieces of plastic debris collected from the British sea and photographed with a standard camera