Cover art for Cyanotype Imperfections
Published
Gost Books, July 2025
ISBN
9781915423795
Format
Hardcover, 160 pages
Dimensions
25.6cm × 19.9cm

Cyanotype Imperfections Photographs of British Algae

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The overconsumption and waste of cheap clothing, garments often worn only a few

times (sometimes never at all), and then discarded. For this new work the artist has recovered

waste clothing from 121 locations around the coast of Britain, presenting them as unique

cyanotype images.

The project was inspired by the work of Anna Atkins, a Victorian botanist and photographer whose

groundbreaking book, 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, 1843,' Barker has

based her own work on, but rather than showing natural algae and seaweed as Atkins did, Barker

chose to show the clothing and garments recovered from the same British shorelines.

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