Ocean pollution art

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Illustration done to raise awareness on the world marine pollution emergency.

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.

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.

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…

Fish and turtle swimming through plastic rubbish in the ocean

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…

Underwater evolution. Cartoon by Eray Ozbek. Check out more cartoons about the pollution of our oceans in our collection.

Our planet, in particular the marine world with its inhabitants, is suffering due to the huge amount of plastic that humanity consumes every day.Many prefer to close their eyes on this problem since it seems that it doesn’t concern us personally. But in…