FLOATING FALLACY
PHOTOGRAPHY AND TEXT: Swapnil Patil
EDITORIAL DESIGN: paula roush
MEDIUM: photobook
PAGES: 64
DIMENSIONS: 29,7 cm x 21 cm
PAPER: Recycled Natural 120gsm
BINDING: French-doors
PROCESS: HP Indigo
COLOUR: Black & white
Edition: 1st print run of 40
ISBN: 978-1-7390996-1-9
PUBLISHER: msdm publications
PUBLICATION DATE: 2022
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A book alerting to the nefarious way sea species are threatened by the rising pollution of the oceans. A French-doors double pamphlet structure depicts the confrontation of sea creatures with plastic bags, interspersed with a narrative pamphlet positioning the humans in the place of the fish.
Floating fallacy is about current environmental concerns. It’s about how marine life gets affected because of the dumping of plastic in the ocean. 8 million of that 300 million is chucked into the sea annually, which is equivalent to dumping a garbage truck (1 ton) of plastic into the ocean per minute. There are five massive patches of plastic in the oceans around the world. These huge concentrations of plastic debris cover large swaths of the ocean; the one between California and Hawaii is the size of the state of Texas. The pictures are abstract and linked together to convey the message that numerous marine organisms struggle to distinguish common plastic items from their actual food. Animals that ingest plastic often face starvation as they cannot digest it, and the plastic fills their stomachs, hindering them from consuming real food. The likelihood of coral contracting diseases significantly rises from 4% to 89% after encountering marine plastic.
contact
paula roush ::: paularoush@gmail.com
msdm studio ::: msdm@msdm.org.uk