Hybrid Botanicals

• Prize
  Gold in Fine Art/Special Effects
• Photographer
  Joson
• Agency / Studio
  Joson Studio- Sf
• Technical Info
  Images Shot On Expired Polaroid Film And Large-format View Camera
• Photo Date
  May 2025

This series reimagines botanical study through large-format analog photography. Working with sheet film and hand-processed negatives, I create double exposures in the camera or by sandwiching negatives when scanning. These methods merge perspective, texture, and form, transforming plants into layered renderings—part study, part deconstruction—where outlines dissolve into overlapping petals and stems. Rooted in analog practice, the work reflects on a fading photographic tradition where chance and imperfection shape each image, and nature emerges as fragile, monumental, intimate, and strange.

Award-winning photographer joSon was born in the Philippines to a Filipino mother and an African American father. Sent to live with his mother’s family in Vietnam at age ten, he was educated in a Buddhist temple in preparation for becoming a monk. “I thought that was my calling long before I saw life through the viewfinder,” joSon recollects. “But the truth is, I have never left the monk-hood. I just left the temple.” Today joSon is a professional photographer based in San Francisco whose work is collected by an international list of clients.