We previously featured German photographer Martin Klimas—known for his “exploding” pictures—for his work with paint and music.
Recently, he has produced a new series titled “Rapid Bloom”, which captures the moments where beautiful flowers are blown up into countless fragments.
To create this explosive effect, he first dipped the flowers into liquid nitrogen to freeze them into a glass-like fragility before shooting them from behind with an air gun—the resulting photographs show the fascinating transition of the blooming flowers into abstract art through destruction.
According to Amanda Gorence of Feature Shoot, “his chaotic creations fill the frame in their dazzling mimic of an accelerated bloom, freezing an action we know was instantaneous”.
View more of the images from the “Rapid Bloom” series below.
[via Feature Shoot]