Nature's Network.

• Prize
  Gold in Special Categories/Macro Photography
• Photographer
  Gianfranco Merati
• Agency / Studio
  Gianfranco Merati Studio.
• Photo Date
  June 2024.

Fungi are the invisible network that connects plants together and facilitates the communication between them. Mushrooms are the visible spores of certain type of fungi. In this project I explore a few species of mushrooms, observing their structures and shapes, often very different from one species to another. It is a tribute to this incredible miracle of Nature and, although we may know mushrooms because of how they taste in our cooking recipes, they belong to what constitutes a fundamental pillar of how Nature works. This project is a tribute to that very role.

Gianfranco’s motivation as a photographer is that ‘beauty is everywhere’. He seeks to reveal it. In recent times Gianfranco started developing abstract photography within a studio setting. Using both high tech methods and innovative use of basic means, each final image is exacting and verging on the unreal. This, despite the fact that Gianfranco does not manipulate his images to create any illusions in his work.