Environmentalist photographer——Benjamin Von Wong

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Benjamin Von Wong

He is a Canadian artist, activist, and photographer best known for his environmental art installations and hyper-realist art style. He has created many photos of issues related to marine pollution and environmental protection. For example, he shot a group of works——a mermaid laid in 10,000 plastic bottles. He hopes to use this group of works to raise awareness of plastic pollution. And an anti-coal mining project characterized by humans collecting oxygen in the shadow of mining excavators, while the smoke bombs are filled with large amounts of smoke.In my paper, I also quoted his art project on environmental protection.

Mermaid lying on the beach with plastic bottles

It can take up to 60 years for a person to use (and throw away) 10,000 plastic bottles. His group of photos shows a person’s life symbol, the impact on all marine life and impressed in my brain, making me aware of the “hard” and “viral” of plastic pollution.

Mermaid lying on the beach with plastic bottles

He believes that photographers are a problem-solver and that understanding this role requires preparing as thoroughly as possible and solving as many problems as possible. He created a fantastic visual world through photography and then posted it on his website so that people could watch the process of his creation. Also as a photographer, I hope that my work will also allow people to look at things in different ways and think about the world we live in different ways, and the only way to achieve these lofty goals is as Von Wong said——lead by example.

In my later shootings, I will also draw on his shooting techniques, shooting from a wider perspective to emphasize the background, and visually highlight the subject and organically integrate with the environment, and add more visual elements.

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