Plant Exposures

Plant Exposures responds to biodiversity loss and soil depletion caused by industrial agriculture by exploring the intricate relationships between soil, plants, and humans. Through low-toxicity analog film and photographic processes, it reimagines agricultural landscapes by focusing on species coexistence, positioning overlooked weeds as collaborators and indicators of soil health. Plants and microbes are invited into the image-making process through direct contact with light-sensitive materials and hand processing using plant-based developers. These material encounters—shaped by time, temperature, and plant chemistry—embrace unpredictability and resistance, raising questions about more-than-human agency. Plant Exposures asks how interspecies collaborations reshape our understanding of agriculture, and through the analog aesthetic of contact, opens up new ways of perceiving the traces and presences of beings that often lie beyond the limits of human perception.