Eugenie Shinkle is a photographer and writer based in East London. She is Editor of the online photobook platform C4Journal.

Tyrone Williams is a photographer from Northampton. His work focusses on the beauty in the mundane.

Morphogenesis imagines the plant forms of earth’s distant future by reaching back to ideas first proposed in a century-old treatise on the structure of living organisms. In 1917, Scottish biologist and mathematician D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson published his seminal text On Growth and Form. All living organisms, he claimed, are shaped not just by internal genetic information, but by external physical forces that can be modelled mathematically. His theory of ‘transformed co-ordinates’ showed how differences in the forms of related organisms can be expressed through simple physical deformations, by stretching or compressing a Cartesian grid. The latter grid is also the starting point for the digital transformations used to create the speculative plant forms in this work. Warped and transformed in Photoshop, the images were then subjected to further alterations using generative AI and prompts taken from Thompson’s text.

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