As the philosopher and theorist Roland Barthes pointed out, there is a direct relationship between photography and death. Photos capture a fleeting moment that doesn’t last. One of the fundamental goals of a photo is to preserve something that will eventually die or disappear.

Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, however, have found a way to mix photography with life. For 20 years the duo, who are based in England, have been using live grass as biological photo paper. They literally grow their own photographs.

“Instead of talking about the inherent death in photography we talk about the inherent life,” says Ackroyd.

Unlike projecting a photo through lifeless pixels on a computer screen or printing it on the dead fibers on a sheet of photo paper, their photos exist on the molecules of a living organism.

“That’s part of its extraordinary quality,” Ackroyd says. “Most photography is about the moment that has been, whereas our is about being here now.”

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(Source: Wired)