About
An independent archive of botanical image-making
We're two designers, drawn to the natural beauty of plants — their colors, their shapes, the small details you only notice when you look closely.
We photograph the plants we find, trying out different ways to capture them: pressed and lit from behind, scanned floating in a dark box, and other botanical imaging techniques old and new. Alongside the images, we collect what we learn — what each plant is called, where it grows, the odd fact worth knowing — and we're still learning to identify them ourselves. Part of the point is getting better at seeing.
We're just as interested in the people who do this well — the artists, past and present, who've found their own ways of picturing plants — and we feature their work alongside our own.
The site is two things at once: an archive of the plants we've gathered, and a growing knowledge base about botanical imaging — its methods, its history, and the people exploring it. It gets a little bigger every time we find something worth adding.
The two of us
Julian Auch
Product designer · collects the plants and makes the images
Jonathan Auch
Graphic designer · builds the archive, its formats and printed forms
How a specimen enters the archive
The archive accepts specimens from other makers. Submissions are reviewed before publication.