Bacteriograph: Photographing with Bacteria

Zachary Copfer‘s Bacteriographs

Zachary Copfer and his Bacteriograph

Zachary Copfer, a former microbiologist has now turned his science skills to his new passion:  photography.  He is pushing the envelope with an amazing photo printing technique that uses controlled bacteria to produce images instead of traditional dark room equimpment like developers and photo-sensitive papers. Copfer calls his technique “Bacteriographs” and he is not alone in the pursuit of transforming proteins and bacteria into art.  Continue reading “Bacteriograph: Photographing with Bacteria”