Meet the woman turning the oceans’ trash into photographic gold

The beauty of Mandy Barker’s images sharply exposes the ugliness of the damage that plastic is doing to marine life, writes Ellie O’Byrne

PHOTOGRAPHER Mandy Barker is visually tell the devastating tale of the plastics that are destroying our oceans.

When the naturalist, Charles Darwin, set off on his second voyage of discovery on board the HMS Beagle, he had amongst his possessions a book called Zoological Researches and illustrations, by John Vaughan Thompson.