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title: "Ballpoint pen artist, Snah kicks off ACAP’s fourth collaboration with ABUN for World Albatross Day and its theme of plastic pollution"
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# Ballpoint pen artist, Snah kicks off ACAP’s fourth collaboration with ABUN for World Albatross Day and its theme of plastic pollution

*![Snah Kritzler 2a](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD2023/Snah_Kritzler_2a.jpg)  
Black-browed Albatross on Marion Island by Snah, after a photograph by Kim Stevens, with a disposable plastic bottle*

 A [ballpoint pen artist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballpoint_pen_artwork), who goes under the pseudonym [Snah](https://www.facebook.com/hans.stache.9), has created the first artworks for [ABUN Project #43 “Plastic Pollution](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/4530-the-theme-for-world-albatross-day-for-2023-is-plastic-pollution-and-artists-and-biologists-unite-for-nature-will-help-once-more)” in support of this year’s [World Albatross Day](https://www.acap.aq/world-albatross-day/wad2023-plastic-pollution).  The project, which will run until 31 March, is the fourth collaboration between ACAP and [Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature](https://abun4nature.org/) in support of World Albatross Day on 19 June.

 *![Snah Kritzler 4](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD2023/Snah_Kritzler_4.jpg)  
A Black-footed Albatross by Snah, after a photograph by Cynthia Vanderlip taken on Kure Atoll, stands next to a washed-up plastic bottle*

 Snah writes to *ACAP Latest News*:  “I live in Germany in a little town near Hanover.  I have been painting with a ballpoint pen for the last three years.  I haven't had any professional training.  I also work with aquarell, pastel chalk, airbrush, charcoal and acrylic.  But I now prefer to use ballpoint pens, because I can use them while sitting on my sofa.”

 **![Snah Kritzler 4](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD2023/Snah_collage_of_8_drawings.jpg)*  
A collage of Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses by Snah for ‘WAD2022’*

 Snah also produced ballpoint pen artwork to help illustrate last year’s World Albatross Day, with its theme of [Climate Change](https://www.acap.aq/world-albatross-day/wad2022-climate-change).

 Thanks Snah!

 *John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 10 January 2023*