# Mind-blowing, magnified portraits of insects

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2017
- Speaker: Levon Biss
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/levon_biss_mind_blowing_magnified_portraits_of_insects)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Photographer Levon Biss was looking for a new, extraordinary subject when one afternoon he and his young son popped a ground beetle under a microscope and discovered the wondrous world of insects. Applying his knowledge of photography to subjects just five millimeters long, Biss created a process for shooting insects in unbelievable microscopic detail. He shares the resulting portraits -- each comprised of 8- to 10,000 individual shots -- and a story about how inspiration can come from the most unlikely places.

## Lectures

1. [Mind-blowing, magnified portraits of insects](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/levon_biss_mind_blowing_magnified_portraits_of_insects/cdc530cecf46), 8 min (TED's player)