PPC: Partying and Plastic: The UK Festival Circuit

“In the spring of 2015, Melinda Watson at RawFoundation UK talked to me about supporting their Making Waves Plastic-Free Festival campaign at Glastonbury Festival. As well as providing a series of images for their activities at the event, it was my desire to make new, discreet photographic work—a type of personal witness statement.

For more than 20 years, I have been making work about the “plastic problem.” In human history, much of the art has serviced religion. Perhaps now in the 21st century, art can be of service in helping humans learn how to live more sustainably…“