Bevil Templeton-Smith Microscope Photography
Bevil Templeton-Smith photographs crystals through old research microscopes with polarising filters and wave plates, in a project begun in 2021 that includes Symmetry, Maelstrom III and Colourfall. It was entered in Playbook's 2025 Photo Competition, “Hidden in Plain Sight.”
Artist statement
My submission is a set of photographs which are part of a project I have been working on since 2021. It mixes my passions for photography and layman's science. I started with buying old research microscopes and perfecting the connection of my modern digital camera. The main microscope has polarising filters and wave plates. The resulting photographs are a burst of shape and colour when viewing crystals of various substances, with which I have endlessly experimented. Hidden in plain sight.
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