Levon Biss
Levon Biss is a British photographer born in London. Throughout his 25-year career, Levon’s work has covered a wide range of photographic genres, including portraiture, documentary and sport, but is best know for his extreme macro work. Levon’s photography has been exhibited around the world and his prints are housed in numerous museum and private collections. He has published four books and his photographs have featured on the covers of international titles such as TIME
With his passion for nature and photography, in 2016 Levon released the multi-award-winning project Microsculpture, a unique three-year photographic study of insects in mind-blowing magnification that took the genre of macro photography to an entirely new level. Levon adapted traditional techniques to create a photographic process that revealed the minute details of insects in a resolution and scale never seen before. The project has been viewed by millions has been described as a beautiful marriage between art and science.
Levon’s exhibitions display photographs printed in large-scale formats, with insects only a few millimetres long being presented as 3 metre high prints. Each image takes 4 weeks to create and is produced from over 10,000 individual photographs using microscope lenses. For the last 5 years, the Microsculpture exhibition has travelled through Europe, the Middle East, South America and the USA with solo shows in 22 countries.
In 2020 Levon turned his attention to botany with the project The Hidden Beauty of Seeds & Fruits. Over a period of 6 months, Levon studied the collections of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and after inspecting many thousands of specimens he photographed over 100 for the project. The final images display seeds and fruits from around the world in exquisite detail, enabling the viewer to appreciate their intricate textures and adaptations.
Books:
The Hidden Beauty of Seeds & Fruit – published by Abrams
Strange Nature – published by Abrams
Microsculpture – published by Abrams
One Love – published by Lanoo