Cigarette
2024
Digital Photography
This project explores the negative impact of cigarette pollution on the ocean. Through visuals, it highlights the environmental damage caused by discarded cigarette butts, emphasizing the need for greater awareness and action to protect marine life.
Artist express how cigarettes affect the quality of water and the ocean through photography. Refraction, distortion, and blurring techniques are used to convey the effect of cigarettes in water.
Cigarette butts wash into rivers and lakes and eventually into the ocean. Studies have shown that a single cigarette butt can contaminate up to 1,000 liters of water.
Cigarette butts wash into rivers and lakes and eventually into the ocean. Studies have shown that a single cigarette butt can contaminate up to 1,000 litres of water. While precise data may still be lacking, it is clear that many animals end up with
cigarette butts in their guts.(Oceancare,2023)