ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FLOWERS

Flower artist Makoto Azuma and botanical photographer Shunsuke Shiinoki present a second edition of their vibrant anthology, two yea rs after the first. Focusing on the ephemeral nature of flowers while working to conserve in a concrete, tangible form the passage o f time they embody, the authors use two techniques. The first highlights the flowers features and sense of presence by picturing th em from overhead. The second applies a lateral perspective to capture the life force of plants as they stretch towards the sun. In c ontrast t...[Read more]