Mongrels of Our Making
The Plastiglomerates of Hawai’i
- 2025 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, Photography (Adult Nonfiction)
Photographer Michael Kolster poignantly documents how plastics that wash ashore Hawaiʻi’s beaches are being combined with volcanic rocks to create a hybrid product of human and geological forces. These strangely beautiful modern-day fossils will form a record of present-day human activity that is likely to persist for thousands of millennia.
