Bathed in Ultraviolet Light, Single Flowers Glow with Radiant, Saturated Color
All photographs © Debora Lombardi, Italy, Shortlist, Skilled competitors, Wildlife & Nature, Sony World Pictures Awards 2022, shared with permission
In Between Artwork and Science, Debora Lombardi harnesses the artistic potential of ultraviolet gentle. The Italy-based designer and photographer splashes single flowers with the radiation, unveiling a whole spectrum of colours in any other case invisible to the human eye: saturated purple and blue tones delineate the veins in a leaf and yellows add a neon-like glow to stamen wealthy with pollen, remodeling the blooms into otherworldly specimens.
“I began experimenting with this method within the darkness of my studio throughout the lockdown of March 2020, making it my foremost outlet in that equally darkish interval,” Lombardi tells World Photography Organization, which named the sequence a finalist on this yr’s awards. “My experimentation then continued all through 2021, making enhancements and customisations, and this sequence represents an excerpt.”
When you’re in London, you may see a few of Lombardi’s incandescent flowers at Somerset House as a part of the group’s exhibition by way of Could 2. In any other case, observe her on Instagram.
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