Canada, 2000s
Michael Flomen’s dreamlike image has been created without the aid of a camera, using an 8×10-inch film negative to capture the bioluminescent trace of fireflies mating, which he has then translated into an exquisite large-format print titled "Us". Curator James Campbell writes: "With a debt to the histories of 19th-century photography and science and to contemporary considerations like abstraction, formalism, modernism and surrealism, Michael Flomen nonetheless transcends these genres with his unique vision and technique."