# Exposing the invisible

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2009
- Speaker: Nick Veasey
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_veasey_exposing_the_invisible)
- 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)

Nick Veasey shows outsized X-ray images that reveal the otherworldly inner workings of familiar objects -- from the geometry of a wildflower to the anatomy of a Boeing 747. Producing these photos is dangerous and painstaking, but the reward is a superpower: looking at what the human eye can't see.

## Lectures

1. [Exposing the invisible](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/nick_veasey_exposing_the_invisible/2c6847989d5e), 13 min (TED's player)