Jonathan Singer
"He studied photography in college and trained under the painter Ilya Bolotowsky. “But my mother wanted me to be a doctor,” says Singer, so he went to medical school. He returned to photography when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease five years ago and after he stopped performing surgery. Armed with a Hasselblad digital camera, he’s invented a new way of photographing flowers that reveals the plant form, color, and texture in remarkable detail. In a light that evokes the paintings of Dutch masters, the flowers seem to be emerging out of darkness."
Jonathan Singer's documentary approach, done with great technique, reveals these plants which he was given access to only after building an impressive portfolio of botanical photography. Some of the plants are likely some of the last in existence, and the photographs raise an awareness of this.
Its one thing to tell someone that something is rare, and its another thing to walk into a space and see one of these on the wall, and then find out more about what that flower is.
via AudubonMagazine.org
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