Publications

PUBLICATIONS

LIVE INTERVIEWS

SKY NEWS TV Interview 14 February 2020
BBC News - TV Interview 15 November 2018 view
VICE IMPACT short film - selected view - "Is circularity the solution to Ocean Plastic?" July 2018 view
VICE IMPACT short film - "Is circularity the solution to Ocean Plastic" with mission 2020 climate leader Christina Figueres and fashion designer Stella McCartney - full film July 2018 view
Podcast - The Documentary Photographer, Episode 27 - Beyond Drifting interview with Roger Overall 27 May 2017 view
BBC - Hull UK City of Culture 2017 interview with Kofi Smiles view
UNESCO Biosphere Talk Lanzarote Spain, October 2016 view
'Seen on Earth'- talk led by Adam Pawloff (Greenpeace spokesman for climate and energy) with Mandy Barker, Simon Norfolk, and curator Verena Kaspar-Eisert on the occasion of the exhibition 'Seen on Earth' at Kunst Haus Wien, 17 March 2016 view
IKEA Art Event 2016 view
WYNG Masters Photography Award 2015 - Finalist May 2015 view
CNN Connect The World - Live on CNN, US, 24 June 2014 view
ARTE France & VIA Decouvertes Films 'Oceans, the Mystery of the Missing Plastic' - screenings worldwide

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Guardian ‘People are anaesthetised to seeing rubbish everywhere’: the book unearthing waste in our seas 19 March 2024
Financial Times, Gallery Photographs by Mandy Barker, 23 March 2024
The Guardian ‘Our Plastic Ocean: infinite waste in boundless seas – in pictures’ 8 December 2022
Recovered Mixtape cassette story - The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Metro, The Express, The Sun, CNN, BBC, NME, Sky News, BBC 5 LIVE, ITV, CBBC, Newsround, BBC Scotland, Euro Weekly News, Emirates 24/7, ABC-7, Lonely Planet, Jamaica Star, Majorca Daily, Travel & Leisure, Republic World, Female First, and going on to global media coverage - 14 February 2020
PHOTOWORKS Dignified Death, Abject Acts, a review of STILL (FFS) Written by Ricardo Reverón Blanco December 2021
VOGUE Portugal ‘No Comments Issue’ LUNASEA series featured November 2021
GEO Magazine & GEO EXTRA ‘Wie verandert Plastik unseren Planeten?’ April Edition 2021
ELLE Magazine France, Elle Culture, 15 January 2021
212 Magazine, Future Shock Issue, Issue Ten, Autumn Winter 2020 (14 page feature)
The British Journal of Photography, Decade of Change, 15 December 2020
Creative Review, The Sustainability Issue, 10-page feature, Issue 4, Vol. 40, August/September 2020
The Royal Photographic Society Journal, 8-page feature of my new work ‘LUNASEA’ from Henderson Island, June 2020, Vol. 160
ZOOM Magazine #258 Collecting Photography 2020
EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY - The Environmental Issue, Art Magazine, Number 106, January 2020
VOGUE Portugal - 10 page feature, September 2019
Oxfam Diary 2020 cover and notebook
SMITH Journal - ‘The new organisms’ page 39, Volume 33, Summer 2019
World Wildlife Fund Magazine (WWF) feature, Fall 2019
Mozart’s Opera ‘Idomeneo’ Programme Salzburg Festival August 2019
Cahiers du football, numero 3, July - December 2019
China News Weekly, China 29 July 2019
National Geographic Kids Magazine, 'The BIG Picture' - Image of the Month, 'PENALTY-The World' - September 2018
National Geographic Magazine - June 2018 - pages 72-79
Lufthansa in-flight magazine - front cover - June 2018
FOAM Magazine 50th Issue, text by Ben Burbridge, Pages 133-146 - May 2018 
The British Journal of Photography 'Breaking Point' - May 2018
The UNESCO Courier - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation Magazine - May 2018
The New Scientist - front cover & Aperture feature - May 2018
Digital Camera Magazine, Desert Island DSLR May 2018
Candy Magazine, The Battery, San Francisco, June 2018
China Airlines in-flight magazine - June 2018
Financial Times Magazine, 'The Problem with Plastic' by Clive Cookson 27/28 January 2018 view
Harpers Bazaar, '4 Top Art Books To Read This Month', January 2018 view
Smithsonian Magazine, US 'These Haunting Photographs Call Attention to Plastic Trash Swirling in the Ocean' 10 May 2017 view
The New Scientist Magazine, 'Marine life is rubbish... at least in these pictures' 22 April 2017 view
The Telegraph, 'The Final Frontier' 29 April 2017
Monthly Photography, South Korea, April 2017
Marie Claire Italy, March 2017
The British Journal of Photography, Cool & Noteworthy, pp 98-101 January 2017 view
Greenpeace, Connect, Summer 2016
Boat International - October 2016
D - La Repubblica Magazine, Italy, 25 June 2016
El Pais Semenal Spain, 12 June 2016
De Standaard Belgium, 28 May 2016
TIME, World, 13 Artists featured by Marisa Gertz, 8 June 2016
American Photo & Popular Photography, United States, June 2016
NRC Handelsblad Newspaper Magazine, Netherlands, April 2016
Fotografi Norway - Number 1, January 2016
Smithsonian Magazine US - Volume 46, Number 2, May 2015 view
Making Photographs - Case Study, Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2015
Beta 13 Developements in Photography February 2015 
Flux Magazine, Netherlands - Interview - No. 12, January 2015
Wired - Raw File, 2 December 14 view
Gup Magazine #42 ‘Collectors Tip’ August - November 2014
Fotoii Magazine Issue 003 September 2014 
Royal Photographic Society Journal Vol 154 August 2014
The Guardian Eyewitness series 9 May 2014 view
Fotographia Magazine 28 March 2014 
Consumption - Fifth cycle of Prix Pictet, teNeues 2014
Cause and Effect Visualising Sustainability, Gestalten, Berlin 2012
Time Magazine United States - May 2012
The Financial Times Germany - 7 May 2012
La Vie Magazine Taiwan - May/June 2012
Wallpaper* Magazine International - January 2012
Catlin Guide 2012 United Kingdom - January 2012 
Time Out London 15 March 2012
Anno Australia January 2012
Bienal Internacional De Fotografia, Argentina, Buenos Aires, February 2012
Planeta Brazil May 2012
Madezine Taiwan Issue 16 February 2012


SELECTED ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

BBC In Pictures ‘Plastic pollution art highlights risk to world’s oceans’ 28 June 2021
The Eye of Photography Belfast Photo Festival : Mandy Barker : Plastic Planet 21 June 2021
Review by Joel Colberg in Conscientious Photo Magazine, 'Imperfectly Known Animals' view
Review Photo-eye by Laura M. Andre 'Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals' view
PIXEL Magazine - Photographing Marine Pollution as "Imperfect Animals" Interview by Emily von Hoffmann 10 October 2017 view
VICE China Feature 22 March 2017 view
LIVESCIENCE 'Mysterious 'Plastic Plankton' Art Exhibit Reveals Extent of Ocean Pollution' New York City view
WIRED 'Is That Plankton? Nope, Its Trash' February 2017 view
LensCulture Network Member Interview November 2016 view
Francis Hodgson Writing About Photographs - Unseen Photo Fair 25 September 2016 view
Parley for the Oceans - A Beautiful Mess Interview October 2016 view
National Geographic - Proof, 20 April 2016 view
Featureshoot, 28 April 2016 view
LensCulture - Editors Pick - INDEFINITE 11/02/2015 view
Amsterdam - United Academics 22/02/12 
Brazil - Planeta - June 2012
France - Green et Vert 22/02/12 
Italy - DesignBoom, Milan 02/02/12 view
Los Angeles, CA - GOOD Magazine 08/02/12 view
Netherlands - Brekend 02/12 view
New York - FastCompany, Co.Exist 02/12 view
New Orleans - inhabitat 02/20/12 view
Peru - Empresas & Negocios 11/02/12 
Singapore - Design TAXI 03/02/12 
Spain - Lainformacion 25/02/12 view
Sweden - ‘1983’ Journal, Stockholm 02/12 
Taiwan - Madezine, Issue 16 - 02/12 
Tel Aviv - Xnet - PENALTY - The World (July 2014)
Turkey - Treehugger - 08/02/12 view
UK - Wallpaper* Magazine Case Study for App 2014
United Kingdom - CNN International -16/03/12 view
UK - Its Nice That - 31/01/12 view
UK - London IP Showcase - 26/11/12 view
UK - StArt Magazine - 28/01/12 
UK - Source Magazine 2011 - Selectors Comment Stefanie Braun view
US - Featureshoot - 05/03/12 view
US - Huffington Post - 25/02/12 view
US - NPR – 11/2011 view
US - TIME, Lightbox - Earth Day - 22/04/12 view
US - Trendland - 16/02/12 view
US - UTNE Reader - 06/02/12 view


TALKS

Responding to Light: the diversity of modern photograpy, MAKE Southwest, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon, 16 September 2023
CAMERA-Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin, Italy, 21 September 2023
IUTP Award - The Photographic Society of America, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, 30 September 2023
Glaz Festival, Le Tambour Auditorium, Rennes 2 University, France 16 November 2023
The Collection Museum of Art & Archaelogy, Lincoln 26 November 2021
European Commission EU Green Week 2021 ‘Zero Pollution for Healthier People & Planet’ 15:45 (UK Time) 3 June 2021
Belfast Photo Festival, FUTURE(s) ‘Plastic Planet’ talk & discussion June 2021
Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools AEO, Kazakhstan 17 March 2021
London Film Academy, Q & A short film ‘Trapped In Plastic’ 26 February 2021
British Embassy Riga, to promote COP26, February 2021
Natural History Museum, London ‘Bye Bye Plastic’ discussion with Dr Alex Bond & activist Melati Wijsen 27 January 2021
Fotografiska, Tallin, Estonia, November 2019
Kadmos Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, December 2019
Guernsey Photography Festival, November 2019
Pitcairn Island, South Pacific - talk to the whole country in one room - 22 June 2019
Euro Conference GlobalCapital Sustainable & Responsible Capital Markets Forum, opening keynote speaker, Amsterdam, 4th September 2018
On behalf of the British Embassy & British Council at Almedalen, Visby island of Gotland, Sweden - 4th July 2018 
Landskrona Foto Festival 2017 - 'What role can visual art play in today's climate change debate?' Sweden, September 2017
Northern Photography Symposium 'Publishing, Presenting & Exhibiting, Reaching 21st Century Audiences' - Bolton University, 21 June 2017
UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Lanzarote - 1st September 2016
Marfa Dialogues, Marfa Ballroom, "From Hyperlocal to Hyperobject: Art, Ecology and OOO" Professor Timothy Morton in conversation
with Mandy Barker, moderated by author Erik Davis. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States, March 2016
'Seen on Earth' opening discussion with Adam Pawloff, Greenpeace, Mandy Barker, Simon Norfolk, Kunst Haus Vienna, March 2016
Plymouth University 3 May 2016
Network Ecologies - Exploring the Relationship Between Environmental Art, Science, & Activism, Hull University, Scarborough, June 2015
KEEN International Ocean Tour, The Rocket Complex, London 17 May 2015
'The Final Step: Printing & Presentation of Artwork', Hong Kong City Hall, April 2015
'From Lap Sap Wan to the Marine Litter Problem in Hong Kong' - WYNG Masters Award, Hong Kong City Hall, April 2015
Bolton University - Guest Lecture 2014/15
De Montfort University - Guest Lecture
UK Young Artists Ambassador Judge, Leicester 2014
Lancashire Wildlife Trust - Guest Lecture
Sirius Art Centre - Artist in Residence talk, Cobh, Cork, Ireland, 2014
Hexham Photography Group - Guest Photographer
Plastic Free Seas Youth Conference - Guest Speaker, Hong Kong, 2013
ZSL London Zoo Animal Photography Prize - Judge 2013/14
Festival Frontieres, Live Interview Terre TV from Marseilles, 2012
Sea Dragon 72' yacht - presentation somewhere in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, 2012
Harrogate College - Guest Lecture
Hull University - Guest Presentation