Found on Beach: Marine Debris Studio Specimens

This photographic reportage began in 2018 – initially titled Found on Beach – documenting the comedy and tragedy of objects that were being left behind, ignored, or washed ashore along the Atlantic Ocean beachfront of Daytona Beach, Florida.  That effort evolved into additional photographic works titled, World’s Most Famous Beach and Found on Beach: Witness Apathy.

Any man-made, manufactured or processed solid material (or object) which has been intentionally or unintentionally, directly or indirectly, disposed of or abandoned into a natural marine environment, according to the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), constitutes what is classified as “marine debris”.  This latest flotsam pictorial, Found on Beach: Marine Debris Studio Specimens examines the transformation several familiar man-made solid materials undergo when castaway by humans.

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The collection of imagery I continue to amass throughout this work has changed how I perceive and engage with the world around me.  Inspired by contemporary environmental artists like Gregg Segal, Mandy Barker, and Chris Jordan, as a photographic artist contributor, I seek new ways to visually articulate the ever-rising derelict pollutant maelstrom that is waterway flotsam and its effect on the earth’s biological community.