The online Digitalt Museum collects together images from a number of different Swedish museums. It currently has over half a million artworks in the Public Domain and hundreds of thousands more that are free to use with the appropriate Creative Commons licence. A search on ‘träd’ (tree in Swedish), ‘photograph’ and ‘Public Domain’, returns a wonderful collection of black and …
Polish born, Australia based photographic artist Renata Buziak experiments with plants, turning the results into beautifully radiant images. In her own words she forms ‘alliances between a variety of plants and photographic emulsions’ which she calls Biochromes. Somehow she enables the chemical and biological reactions of decaying plants to imprint onto photographic materials creating what …
Often when you look upwards to the top of older buildings you will see a plant hanging precariously off a ledge or sprouting out of the smallest of cracks. The question of how it originally got there probably has something to do with birds, but after that, it’s the tenacity of plants themselves and their …
Prague based Martin Rak is an accomplished landscape photographer who we have featured here before; today we take a look at some more of his pictures. Tree photography, due to the scale, is one of the more difficult plant genres to master. Rak has managed it well, showing a range of engaging composition styles. One of these is …
Bryophytes are mosses and liverworts. Mosses and liverworts are ancient non-flowering members of the plant kingdom. They are more often than not very small, although readily form carpets covering large areas. They have wonderful common names like Flapwort, Haircap or Sheathed Timmia, and scientific names that are impossible to remember such as Brachythecium rutabalum. On …
Scientist and artist Charles Kazilek uses a super powered microscope to show the startling beauty and intricacy of plant-fibres used for paper. The images focus on an area the size of a full-stop.
Amanda Friedman is a successful travel, celebrity and lifestyle photographer living in Los Angeles. One series of work – Night Landscapes – captures the quiet presence and spirit of urban trees after dark.
Two recent plant art photographic books worth contemplating while laying in a grassland meadow or alternatively standing in the Tate Modern bookshop. Scott McFarland, Snow, Shacks, Streets, Shrubs McFarland is a wonderful photographer. His extensive focus on gardens and plants works in his favour here too. This collection of previous years’ work has a good selection of such …
Frank, a.k.a Franktele1’s profile picture on Flickr is of a man in a cowboy hat. Something suggests that it’s probably not him. But it is hard to know for sure because he’s kept personal information to an absolute minimum: all we know is he’s male, ‘super ugly’ and joined Flickr in 2009. What he does …
Nick Knight OBE (b.1958) is a celebrated, influential and innovative image maker and fashion photographer. He also has a thing for flowers: fiddling around with them, manipulating them, before finally capturing them. He does it really well too. Like many other great creatives, he recognises the relentless wonder to be had from the relentless morphological …