Barker’s work has been published in over 50 countries including National Geographic, Time, The Guardian, Smithsonian, The Explorer’s Journal and New Scientist. She regularly takes part in talks and interviews for the BBC, ITV, Greenpeace, CNN and the British Embassy. Her work has been exhibited world-wide from Impressions Gallery, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, and the United Nations headquarters in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and the Science and Technology Park in Hong Kong. Barker takes part in key expeditions alongside scientists to some of the most remote places on earth to represent the scale of the marine plastic problem with the intention of leading the viewer to take action.

Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections is currently exhibited as part of Costing the Earth an Impressions Gallery offsite exhibition in partnership with South Square Centre. In this series, Barker pays homage to the work of pioneering botanist and photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871) through her use of a Victorian photographic process. In these images, Barker hopes to raise awareness of the environmental impact of fast fashion and the harmful effects of microfibres released into the oceans from synthetic clothing.

You will have the chance to buy Barker’s book Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections and have it signed.

Free event, donations welcome.

 Booking recommended via Eventbrite here.

Event address: South Square Centre, Thornton BD13 3LD

Curated by Jane Hiley, Costing the Earth is an Impressions Gallery offsite exhibition in partnership with South Square Centre. Part of Impressions’ Summer of Sustainability programme.