These images highlighting themes of climate resilience, personal trauma and identity are part of an exhibition of the work of students from more than 25 different countries
© Photograph: Adriel Michelle
© Photograph: Adriel Michelle
Tal Danino’s day job at Columbia University, New York, is engineering “living” medicines. “We program microbes for cancer therapy using synthetic biology,” he says. As a side hustle he manipulates and photographs the microbial world; his images are collected in a book, Beautiful Bacteria. Taking bacteria from substances such as wastewater, dental plaque or kimchi, Danino lets them multiply in a petri dish, adding dyes. The results are artworks differing from the digital enhancements often made in scientific photography to make images more informative. Indeed, he says, the microbes deserve some credit: “They do often deviate from our plans, becoming active collaborators in the creation of the work.”
Beautiful Bacteria: Encounters in the Microuniverse is published by Rizzoli (£38.50). To order a copy for £33.88 go to guardianbookshop.com or call 020-3176 3837
© Photograph: Rizolli
© Photograph: Rizolli
The photographer and her husband came across an abandoned boat while out walking and took the opportunity to float a surreal idea
Every September, Carla Vermeend and her husband go on holiday to Terschelling island, in the Netherlands.
“It has lots of nature, right in the middle of the Wadden Sea, which is listed by Unesco as a world heritage site,” says Vermeend, a Dutch photographer. During their visit in 2014, the couple were walking by the sea together.
Continue reading...© Photograph: Carla Vermeend
© Photograph: Carla Vermeend
Shocking, arresting and extraordinary photographs that shifted how women are seen in the world
• Author Anne Enright: ‘The lens has not lost its power to claim and possess’
Continue reading...© Photograph: Dan Wynn/© Dan Wynn Archive and Farmani Group, Co LTD
© Photograph: Dan Wynn/© Dan Wynn Archive and Farmani Group, Co LTD
War in Gaza, the Russian offensive in Kharkiv, protests in Georgia, the Northern lights and the Cannes Film Festival: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
Warning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing
Continue reading...© Photograph: George Ivanchenko/Anadolu/Getty Images
© Photograph: George Ivanchenko/Anadolu/Getty Images
The invisible downside to our online lives is the data stored at giant energy-guzzling datacentres
It’s been called “the largest coal-powered machine on Earth” – and most of us use it countless times a day.
The internet and its associated digital industry are estimated to produce about the same emissions annually as aviation. But we barely think about pollution while snapping 16 duplicate photos of our pets, which are immediately uploaded to the cloud.
Continue reading...© Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian
© Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian
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