Barry WEBB works primarily with macro photography, focusing on overlooked natural subjects such as slime molds, fungi, and decaying matter. Shot in forest environments with precise attention to detail, his images reveal the intricate forms, textures, and colors of life at a microscopic scale.
Slime molds—neither plant nor fungus—exist between forms, shifting, branching, and multiplying. Most are no larger than a pinhead, yet under Webb’s lens, they appear as delicate, alien architectures: fleeting expressions of organic intelligence. His work captures the subtle beauty of growth and decay, inviting us to look more closely at the quiet interconnections between soil and spore, life and decomposition, observer and organism.
