Sea pollution art

The winners of the 2024 United Nations World Oceans Day Photo Competition have been announced. This annual contest brings together photographers and artists from around the world to showcase the beauty and importance of the ocean. As we read on the organizers' website: “This open and free photo competition seeks to inspire the creation of imagery capturing the beauty, the challenges and the importance of the ocean and humankind’s relation to it, hoping to contribute to actions to preserve…

I’m a professional illustrator with a strong fondness for political, social and human issues, with more than 10 years experience collaborating with several publications and companies across four continents. For a long time, I wanted to do a selection of my best works to show some of the problems afflicting the world nowadays.

This is showing how pollution affects the environment by saying the ocean is out garbage can

We live in a society that has dozens of problems. Unfortunately, that is the way it has become, from narcissism, the rise of social media and global warming.

image credit Alex Nabaum It is during the winter when the winds are high and storm surges strong that keeping our coastline clean becomes a real challenge. Just after the storm ends & the sun comes out, our work begins. At low tide, you can usually find our family at one of the local beaches cleaning up what we can, and if the waves are good after, we hop in for a bit a surf. This year, we decided to share the tradition and invited others from our community to join. And so, the Winter…

A series of images have re-imagined iconic, ocean-based movies such as Jaws and Aquaman to give a realistic representation of the plastic pollution in our oceans - and the results are shocking and slightly disturbing.

Fish and turtle swimming through plastic rubbish in the ocean