Mongrels of Our Making

The Plastiglomerates of Hawai’i

2025 INDIES Finalist
Finalist, Photography (Adult Nonfiction)
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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.