Photographing Mermaids



Another cool, meaningful photography project that has come to light in recent weeks, this time an environmental statement. The visual medium is an incredibly effective way of spreading a message and we are seeing an increasing number of politically/environmentally-driven campaigns gaining the most traction on social media such as Instagram and Pinterest.

This iteration is of a similar ilk to the limited edition shoe activation we saw from adidas the other week; a campaign to clean the plastic waste out of our oceans.

Photographer Benjamin Von Wong has produced a series of photographers of mermaids lying amongst 10,000 plastic bottles, all artistically arranged to make it look like she is in the ocean or washed up on the beach. Despite looking like a beautiful image at first glance, you quickly realise that she is lying on a bed of disposed waste and the tone of the photo changes instantly. The strewn, violent poses from the mermaids heighten this feeling of unease in the images.

The inspiration for the work comes from the severe danger our oceans face; in fact, if the amount of waste plastic in the ocean continues to increase at the same rate it is now, there will be more plastic bottles in the ocean than fish by 2050. That is shocking.

So, Von Wong wants to simply promote awareness of this issue to give people a serious push to get on with it and do something about it. Check out the images below. 


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