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Living in the Age of Plastic
Living in the Age of Plastic
Plastic is everywhere, in bottles, packaging and many other everyday objects. Yet, not all plastics are created equal. Plastics are a large family of different materials, each with its own properties, applications, and health and environmental impacts. The Society of the Plastics Industry therefore introduced a classification system, the Resin Identification Code, which consists of a number from 1 to 7 in a triangle of chasing arrows, and can be found on most plastic products. With this project, I aim at compiling an overview of the plastic types pervasive in our daily lives. I stage everyday plastic objects as Still Life arrangements. Each plastic type is assigned a colour. A textual level provides background and consumer information. With this project, I want to create a visual world that expands our verbal notion of plastics, and to provide reliable information to support consumers in their daily purchase decisions.
Author
As a Geographer, I use photography to playfully (de)construct urban spaces, to spatially re-stage urban contexts, and to play with our perception of space and reality. I experiment with long shutter speeds and several zoom settings or camera positions in one exposure. This technique creates a moment of irritation, but also conveys a sense of calmness in the chaos, and transfers the scene into a transitional world somewhere between reality and dream. With this approach, I aime at questioning our making of the world through experience and knowledge.
I have been awarded a Honorable Mention in both the 2018 and 2019 International Photography Awards (@photoawards, @iphotoawards), four Honorable Mentions in the 2019 ipa “OneShot: Street Photography” Awards, and a Honorable Mention in the 2019 Budapest International Foto Awards (@budapestfotoawards, @ifotoawards). I have been accepted to to the photoSchweiz 19 (www.photo-schweiz.ch), which is the largest photography exhibition in Switzerland
Website
www.dariamartinoni.com