Data show that plants account for 99 percent of the biomass found on our Planet today. Animals, therefore, represent a mere 1 percent. Nonetheless, if we observe the photograph of an animal, even a small one, in a vast environment such as a forest or elsewhere where green is dominant, our attention will be captured by that tiny subject and we don’t take notice of anything else. Plants, however, are also living organisms, even though they have different characteristics from animals. Scientific studies have shown that we suffer from what is defined as plant blindness. This phenomenon may originate from the fact that plants have never represented an obvious threat to our existence, and therefore, since the beginning of our evolution, our brain has developed a strong attention for animals, some of which have represented a real threat to the lives of our ancestors.

As a photographer, I feel attracted to the complexity of nature and, during my research, I most certainly have not ignored plants, not only because they are essential to life on Earth, but also because they often represent the extraordinary variety and beauty of the world we are privileged to live in.