With his extreme close-ups, one photographer hopes to foster greater appreciation for one of Earth’s most abundant and successful animals
Niga’s mode of macrophotography is painstaking, whether he’s magnifying a thing to 10 times its size or a thousand. He works alone at night in the back of his house, where vibrations from passing vehicles won’t disturb his setup. The room’s only illumination is the light he trains on his subjects.maintain a mutualistic relationship with aphids. The ants tend to the smaller insects, guarding against predators, and in return are allowed to sip honeydew off the aphids’ bodies.
Ants undergo a four-stage metamorphosis as they grow from eggs to adults. Here, a yellow meadow ant carries a larva that’s in the second stage of development. Next the larva will become a pupa.Collaborators send Niga specimens of ants and other insects, or he orders them online. Some arrive alive; they’re returned to the sender after the photo shoot or live out their days in colonies Niga keeps. Other specimens arrive preserved, often in ethanol.
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