🎭 Culture Mar 31, 2026 · Kate Mothes

Barry Webb Documents a Marvelous, Macro Array of Colorful Slime Molds

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Barry Webb Documents a Marvelous, Macro Array of Colorful Slime Molds
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Blown wildly out of proportion in large format, the slime molds that British photographer Barry Webb captures seem atmospheric and sculptural. Stemonitis, for example, looks like dozens of thin pieces of wire with their ends coated in colored wax. But this fungi-like form is one of hundreds of kinds of slime mold, and it typically only reaches a height of about two centimeters at the most. Thanks to Webb’s macro photos, we glimpse a phenomenally beautiful world up-close that is otherwise v

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