Dornith Doherty: Archiving Eden featured in Smithsonian.com
February 19, 2019 - Lila Thulin
Dornith Doherty’s Mesmerizing Photos Capture the Contradictions of Seed Banking. “Archiving Eden,” now at the National Academy of Sciences, shows how guarding against an ecological catastrophe is both optimistic and pessimistic.
Dornith Doherty’s photographs of seedlings and the facilities where they’re conserved are full of plant life, and yet they were inspired by a seemingly inhospitable place: a below-zero, highly secure vault in a remote Norwegian archipelago...
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