Her work on marine plastic waste has received worldwide recognition. Her project Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet 2017; and her book published by Overlapse was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Prize 2018. Mandy Barker has been published in many major magazines and newspapers (TIME, The Guardian, National Geographic, Wired, etc.) and exhibited in many museums and spaces dedicated to photography (The Victoria &amp; Albert Museum and The Photographers Gallery in London, The Aperture Foundation and the United Nations Headquarters in New York).