20 Flower Photos That Look Other Worldly Captured With Uv Light By Debora Lombardi

The artist started this project during the pandemic, and the idea of ultraviolet-induced visible fluorescence photography came to her when she came across a biologist’s blog that illustrated the fascinating phenomenon of fluorescence of flowers and plants hit by ultraviolet light. “I immediately thought that it would be interesting to decline this natural phenomenon into something large, and so I started wandering with the mind while the world was “stopped”. At first, I collected plants and flowers from the condominium garden (because I wasn’t able to go outside), experimented with the strangest ones that could trigger the visual idea of the virus in the imaginary of those who looked at them.” Check out some of her most fascinating works in the gallery below. More info: Website | Instagram Image source: Debora Lombardi The artist says that photography is an indispensable means for her to give voice to alternative visions of reality. She further elaborates, “I started experimenting with Ultraviolet induced visible fluorescence photography (UVIVF) in the darkness of my studio, during the pandemic lockdown of March 2020, making it my main outlet in that equally dark period.”

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Image source: Debora Lombardi “Plants and flowers, when solicited by UV light, emit a fluorescence that makes them mysterious, monstrous, and fascinating at the same time; it’s a bit like seeing the virus under an electron microscope,” mentioned the artist.

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Image source: Debora Lombardi “I use my Nikon Full Frame camera with a macro photography lens (Sigma 105mm), using shutter speeds ranging from 10 to 30 seconds, and applying technical measures resulting from various experiments,” she adds.