Untitled, Connor Hadlow, 2020
For my photo I tried to recreate the feeling of being “trapped in a plastic world”. Millions of animals around the world are suffering due to humans action, notably, pollution. Animals are getting trapped in our plastic waste, and are unable to help themselves, and these animals are suffering because of us. With this photo I wrapped my arm in a plastic wrap and tried to move my arm as much as I could, and found it hard to do. The reason I did this was so I could feel and capture how it feels to be contained by plastic waste with no help.
Animals aren’t able to adapt to sudden changes in the world, they’ve been here for millions of years, way longer than any of us. Then, suddenly in the span of a couple hundred years, or even less, their whole environment is being tarnished by something they have no control of.