Since the emergence of mass-produced plastics in the mid-19th century, it’s estimated that more than 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste have been generated --- equivalent to the weight of 1 billion elephants.
In the summer of 2016, I took cameras everywhere as I travelled the Ottawa River to complete fieldwork for my anthropology master’s degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. As a documentary photographer, it was an essential part of an ethnographic research project in an unfamiliar...