An online talk on translating an herbarium into a photo album by using sunlight to create images on plants - a photographic collaboration with nature. Curated by artist Martha Gray with The Linnean Society of London.

Venue: Online
Date: 13 Nov 6-7.15pm
Tickets: Eventbrite - Free

In this series of work, artist Dianne Bos turns her own herbarium into a photo album by using sunlight to create images on plants. (An herbarium is a collection of dried plant specimens for scientific study).

The resulting chlorophyll prints are made using the natural chemistry of living plants — the ultimate sustainable photographic process. The images Bos has chosen to print ‘into’ the leaves reflect the many worlds that plants sustain, while also hinting there may be sci-fi elements at play.

These images are just as fragile and ephemeral as specific life-forms may be, when confronted with abrupt ecosystem change. In this lecture, Bos discusses the discoveries and reflections prompted by this photographic collaboration with nature.

Dianne Bos, an internationally-exhibiting artist based in Canada and France, has evolved various thematic bodies of work, and merged technical innovations to create new visual hybrids. Her innovative uses of pinhole, camera obscura, installation, and alternative photographic techniques explore the world around us. ‘The excitement, for me, lies not in reproducing something I can see, but in revealing the imperceptible (and maybe only the imagined) using the physics of light and time and darkroom

This is part two of three-part event collaboration with The Linnean Society of London.