The image denotes that there is a man and his dog sitting in amongst a landfill full of plastic and thrown out rubbish. The man looks down at what looks like or preceived as a mobile phone of sorts. Furthermore, the vibrant background colours which are mostly primary colours which makes it sharper and more confusing for the eye to see.

On the other hand, the connotation of the photograph suggests that we are living in what we know in recent years as the Anthropocene. This includes the knowledge of the environmental wastage and climate change. Moreover we have been so caught up with the fascination of technology that we have forgotten about protecting our environment from the human species.

The link between denotation, connotation and the article is that it brings up a situation we are now coming to terms with and have been living with it for years unaware of the destruction we have caused to the biological tissues of our world. In addition to this the quote below sums up my thoughts on the Anthropocene and how we are again unaware of the environmental issues we face today.

“There is already an official
narrative of the Anthropocene: ‘we’, the human species, unconsciously destroyed
nature to the point of hijacking the Earth system into a new geological epoch.”
 Pg. 12

Panadora landfill, 3, plastics recycling, Nairobi Kenya, 2016

https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/anthropocene

https://theanthropocene.org/