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Tiny beauty: how I make scientific art from behind the microscope
Steve Gschmeissner images tiny creatures and viruses to show the public an unseen world.
Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble: scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning electron microscope (SEM). When I was 57, I met Rose Taylor, the creative director at the Science Photo Library in London, and she helped me to realize that there is commercial demand for photographic imagery. From start to finish, the process of creating an image that I’m proud of can take several days; cells might need to be cultured, preserved, dried, coated, photographed, coloured and captioned.
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