Please enjoy my conversation with Meredith Andrews aka Plastic Mermade.

 Contemporary portrait, travel and lifestyle photographer Meredith Andrews has shot for editorial, advertising and private clients all over the world. Based on the sub tropical island of Bermuda, where she finds much of her inspiration. 

Her work can be seen in almost every medium including dozens of international exhibitions such as the 2009 and 2019 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize at National Portrait Gallery in London, UK, Portrait of Humanity 2020, OpenWalls Arles 2020, the Copenhagen Photo Festival, a solo show at the Bermuda National Gallery in 2021, a silver winner of the Association of Photographers awards, the BJP International Photography Award, the Royal Photographic Society International exhibition and the PHOTO IS:REAL Festival all in 2022. 

Most recently Meredith’s work was exhibited at the Women Street Photographers exhibition in NYC, Miami Art Week and Apollo’s Decathlon, Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad at Château de Montsoreau in France.

https://meredithandrewsphotography.com/ 

https://www.instagram.com/meredithphoto 

https://www.instagram.com/plastic_mermade 

https://www.gold.ac.uk/

https://www.uwcatlantic.org/

https://www.mcgill.ca/

https://www.marimekko.com/us_en

Bermuda National Gallery https://bng.bm/  https://bng.bm/a-collector-at-heart/ 

Documentary about Meredith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aktHI8iZiA0&t=387s

Keep Bermuda Beautiful https://www.kbb.bm/

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, author All We Can Save and What If We Get It Right? https://www.ayanaelizabeth.com/ 

Sam Bentley Good News https://www.youtube.com/@itsSamBentley

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/whimsical-legos-are-still-washing-ashore-decades-after-they-were-lost-at-sea-180979580/ 

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