This photographic series reveals the nocturnal life of plants, capturing subtle interspecies interactions through full-spectrum photography and UV fluorescence. Produced in 2022 along the Tambopata River in Peru’s Madre de Dios region, and in 2024 in the Colombian Putumayo. The series explores how plants sense, signal, and shape their environments at night. In landscapes affected by mining and deforestation, medicinal plants like Brugmansia re-emerge as plant teachers, offering insights into ecological intelligence, plant-led remediation, and new forms of worlding rooted in mutual care and resilience.

This project brings to light the life of plants at night, crisscrossing layers of invisibility to capture the subtle and often sub-visible relations maintained between plants and other forest beings while in darkness. The aim of the project is to render visible the ways in which plants come to know the world and how they use such knowledge to form biochemical vegetal territories full of mystery and mutuality (via light absorption, signalling and low light emissions that attract insects, reveal competition and mutuality with other forest beings).

Camino Verde Reforestation station in Madre de Dios is a living seed bank, and a hugely important buffer zone where endangered Amazonia plants and trees are given space and time to thrive. However, during the gold mining rush in Madre de Dios of the last decade, and the desperation of conservation experts, scientists and Indigenous communities trying to mitigate the damage caused by deforestation and mercury poisoning of soils, air and rivers, plant teachers like Bobinzana are again called upon to teach us plant-led remediation and worlding.

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0





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