Hey Ben, what is art?

Benjamin Von Wong has become notorious for his epic photography. His hyper-realistic art style captures viewers in a fusion of special effects and innovative concepts. His last big project was Mermaids hate Plastic.

Maren asked him the ultimate question: Hey Ben, what is Art?

"One of my greatest strength as an artist is

that I am often too naive to realize how crazy my ideas are."

Benjamin Von Wong

About: Mermaids hate Plastic

If the average American uses 167 plastic bottles a year, in 60 years they will have used 10,000 plastic bottles.

Those same single use bottles will be around for your children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children.

That’s a lot of bottles to be running away from, for a very very long time.

Benjamin wanted to highlight and educate people about the problem. But bottles polution is a boring topic. The photographer found a way to make it interesting.

10.000 platic bottles and one mermaid later: