The thirty photographs of Thomas Balaÿ, a former agronomist, plunge the gaze into the very heart of delicate orchids as well as into the centre of succulents, these fatty and fleshy plants.
He brings out the sensuality and the strangeness, the fragile elegance of some as the sculptural aspect of others.
A work has put the path between documentary testimony and an artistic eye to the Karl Blossfeldt.
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Succulent: a succulent photography book
Fascinating succulents
Succulent - the vegetal design
Thomas Balaÿ is a graduate of tropical agronomy and photographer. The photographic approach of Thomas Balaÿ began in the United States and more particularly at the Marie Selby Botanical Garden while he was preparing a traveling exhibition on endangered plants.
Botany can be design ?
Botany can be design ? Maybe to believe this beautiful book published by Ulmer editions where the graphic perfection of succulents is sublimated under the lens of photographer Thomas Balaÿ.
Orchids Portraits
Élégantes et délicates, ces fleurs enchanteresses n’en finissent pas d’étonner par leur diversité de formes et de couleurs. L’objectif de Thomas Balaÿ a su magnifier la finesse de leurs traits. Et rendre leur beauté, toute naturelle.
For orchidmaniac and others
These fascinating plants from the tropics are the stars of an exceptional book that is entirely devoted to them.
Le Courrier des Yvelines
Le photographe, qui a voyagé dans le monde entier et étudié l'agronomie tropicale aux Antilles, publie un beau livre sur des orchidées exceptionnelles.
Orchids book
France inter (audio)
Pure beauty