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Midway Brushstrokes 2

In the midst of the tragedy of plastic pollution on Midway, Jan Vozenilek’s camera tuns, for an instant, to the triumph of life over decay. During our journey, Jan would occasionally steal away from the group, and wander alone in the island with his camera.  The rest of us would wonder where he was, and what [...]
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Plastic Water

Scientists say that plastic now outweighs plankton 6 to 1 in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The lagoon of Midway Atoll is the perfect laboratory to witness all sizes of plastic slowly breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces.  A variety of plastic washes up on the beaches daily, but not [...]
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A visit to Eastern Island

Midway Atoll is actually composed of two small islands, Sand Island -which is the largest and the only one inhabited- and Eastern Island, slightly over one mile long, and separated from Sand Island by a narrow channel that provides access to the interior of the lagoon. Matt Brown, Manager of the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, [...]
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Midway through the lens of Kittipong Janthasang

A large percentage of the permanent residents of Midway are Thai workers, hired by a company called Chugach which provides many services to the island, from maintenance, to food and lodging. Kittipong Janthasang is a Bangkok native who has lived on Midway for three years. We can find him pulling invasive weeds from the fields and [...]
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Midway Brushstrokes

Midway is a place suspended in time and in space.  On this tiny island, the visitor is gently transported into a state of wonder which becomes a portal for instrospection.  Cinematographer Jan Vozenilek has used his camera to sketch the subtle timelessness of Midway in a short video that we want to share with all [...]
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