Fine Art nominee

Plastic is everywhere, in bottles, packaging and many other everyday objects. Yet, not all plastics are created equal. Plastics are a large family of different materials, each with its own properties, applications, and health and environmental impacts. The Society of the Plastics Industry therefore introduced a classification system, the Resin Identification Code, which consists of a number from 1 to 7 in a triangle of chasing arrows, that can be found on most plastic products. 

With this project, I aim at compiling an overview of the plastic types pervasive in our daily lives. I stage everyday plastic objects as Still Life arrangements. Each plastic type is assigned a colour. A textual level provides background and consumer information. With this project, I want to create a visual world that expands our verbal notion of plastics, and to provide reliable information to support consumers in their daily purchase decisions.

Daria Martinoni is a non-professional photographer working and living in Zurich, Switzerland. As a Geographer, she uses photography to playfully (de)construct the built urban environment we live in in order to explore our perception of space (and reality). She experiments with long shutter speeds and several zoom settings in one exposure. With this approach, she aimes at questioning our making of the world through experience and knowledge.
Her photography "Swissmill Tower" has been awarded a Honorable Mention in the 2018 International Photography Awards (@photoawards, @iphotoawards)!
She has been accepted to the photoSchweiz 19 (www.photo-schweiz.ch), which is the largest photography exhibition in Switzerland. Each year the retrospective provides a representative overview of the past year in Switzerland from a photographic perspective.