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Trapped

Every minute, thousands of tonnes of plastic are dumped into the oceans.

We have all seen the shocking images of animals suffocated to death by ...
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Every minute, thousands of tonnes of plastic are dumped into the oceans.

We have all seen the shocking images of animals suffocated to death by a plastic bag.
But this pollution is much more insidious, because in reality it's millions of microparticles resulting from the disintegration of polymer chains that end up in the oceans around us and are ingested by animals as well as humans.
ingested by animals and humans alike.

This internal suffocation, invisible to the human eye
the human eye, is nonetheless very real and leads to a number of harmful effects on health
health: impact on the immune
immune and respiratory systems, endocrine disruption, reduced fertility, increased risk of cancer, etc.

Are we trapped by our relationship with plastic?
Will we be able to give a new direction
the way we use it?
we use it?

"Trapped" is a series of photos designed to make this agony visible by encapsulating a human being encapsulation of a human being in a vacuum plastic packaging...
Is he alive? Is he dying?
One thing is certain, our relationship to the use of plastic, and to its life cycle more generally, needs to be reviewed and optimised.
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