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Flip Flop 13, Saadani Beach, Tanzania, 2014

PERRY, Mike
Flip Flop 13, Saadani Beach, Tanzania, 2014
Image: © Mike Perry/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Flip Flop 13 is from the series Môr Plastig (plastic sea) which is a forensic photographic study of plastic objects that have washed up on the west coast of Wales, and more recently, further afield. Perry photographs the objects one to one, straight on to camera with flat, neutral light, capturing the effect of natural processes on the surfaces of industrially produced materials. In these images the objects become poignant symbols of the entanglement – both literal and metaphorical – of human consumption, waste and nature.


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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 57674

Creation/Production

PERRY, Mike
Mike Perry is an artist and an activist. He grew up in Pembrokeshire and his work is concerned with raising awareness of the environmental crisis that is happening on our own doorstep. Perry’s photographs examine the interactions between landscape, nature and society. Over the last 20 years his practice has focused on Britain’s national parks and increasingly the immediate surroundings of Pembrokeshire where he lives and works, questioning the romantic mythology of national parks as areas of wilderness and natural beauty. Perry’s photographs have a poetic yet harrowing beauty as they bring into sharp focus the impact of man’s activity on the environment.
Role: Artist
Place: Pembrokeshire
Period: 2014

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h(cm) paper:50
w(cm) paper:42

Material

Photograph

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