An artist’s images of tiny toys and figurines dumped in the ocean highlight the wasteful ways we have to change
This plastic Robin Hood figurine, given away free in packets of Kellogg’s cornflakes 50 or 60 years ago, was found during a beach clean at Perranporth in North Cornwall. Photograph: Tracey Williams @legolostatsea
This plastic Robin Hood figurine, given away free in packets of Kellogg’s cornflakes 50 or 60 years ago, was found during a beach clean at Perranporth in North Cornwall. Photograph: Tracey Williams @legolostatsea
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Social media was made for projects like Tracey Williams’s #LegoLostatSea, which anecdotally charts the plastic that has been dumped in the ocean in the past 70 years. Williams began her mission after becoming obsessed with the container of 4.8m Lego pieces that spilled from a cargo ship 20 miles off Land’s End in 1997, and which continue to be washed up on Cornwall’s beaches every day. The fact that many
16 April, 2021 â By Dan Carrier
Geoffrey Robertson. Photo: Jane Bown
Sergei Magnitsky was an accountant, a man who used his ability in mathematics to earn a living crunching numbers and looking after companyâs books. He was, those who knew him say, a quiet, respectable, diligent Russian citizen. He was not your fire-in-the-belly, anti-Putin dissident.
Yet he died at the hands of Russian police, alone in prison cell â for doing what he saw his civil duty. Magnitsky dared to inform the police he had accidentally stumbled on a huge tax fraud â and the police, who were benefitting from the scam, made sure his claims would not be acted on.
A new exhibition is coming to Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange to celebrate its opening on May 19 and will run through until July 3 2021. The opening exhibition, named Seaside: Photographed, will examine the relationship between photographers, photography and the British seaside from the 1850s to the present. Seaside: Photographed will present the seaside from a variety of different visions, and aims to celebrate the special relationship between photography and the coast. On show will be images of hotel life, the beach, the holiday camp, dressing up and dressing down, wild waves, hotel interiors and coastlines to showcase the ever-transforming landscape of the British seaside.
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