Levon Biss: Microsculpture – insect portraits

In 2016, Levon’s passion for nature and photography came together to create the award winning Microsculpture-project, a unique 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 never seen before. It has been described as a “beautiful marriage between art and science”.

Microsculpture-exhibitions display his subjects in large-scale formats, with insects only a few millimeters long being presented as 3 metre high prints. Each image takes 3 weeks to create and the final artworks are produced from up to 10,000 individual photographs. His exhibitions continually travel the globe, allowing diverse audiences to engage with nature in entertaining and educational way.

During the last five years, the Misrosculpture-project has been exhibited in Europe, the Middle East, South America and the United States, and exhibitions presenting it have been organized in a total of 23 countries. Latest in Kuopio, Finland and now at Haltia - The Finnish Nature Centre in Espoo, Finland.