Mandy Barker

Biography

Mandy Barker is an internationally acclaimed British photographer celebrated for her work involving marine plastic debris. Barker was the recipient of the 2023 International Understanding Through Photography Award, the Royal Photographic Society Environmental Bursary, and a National Geographic Society grant, among others.

Self-portrait by Mandy Barker.

See Work

PHOTOGRAPHY / Summer 2025

Plastic Futures

Photography by Mandy Barker ,  By Saskia Beudel

“A stomach…plastic pollution mimicking pink quartz, garnet, turquoise, jade, sapphire, topaz, rose quartz, pink tourmaline, ruby,” writes British photographer Mandy Barker in her research notebooks for her series STILL (FFS). Alongside...

Still Sky. By Mandy Barker.