Pollen
2004
16 x 17 cm
digital image
"Pollen is an amazingly resilient material. It takes many different forms, it's transported in many different ways, wind, many different vectors.
"Madeline Harley - head of research into pollen at Kew - showed me around all these amazing structures. It was fortuitous in that it's a fantastic subject in many different ways - metaphorically and in terms of its structure. It's pretty essential to life in a way.
"I'm currently collaborating with Madeline in a book about pollen. One chapter is called: 'No flowers - no pollen, no pollen - no flowers'.
"This tulip pollen grain was photographed on a scanning electron microscope and magnified 4500x and subsequently colour enhanced through Photoshop."
Rob Kesseler