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Science that grows into art: UC student's new process creates "photos" from bacterial growth. In other words, the natural growth process of bacteria has led ...

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Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 20, 2012 at 6:53am

Copfer has coined his new photographic process as “Bacteriography.” Put simply, it’s a process to develop images in plates of bacteria. That is to say, the bacteria – a living medium – literally grow to form photographic images.

The process is very similar to traditional darkroom photography only instead of light-sensitive photo paper, he uses plates of bacteria.

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