Star Machine - Farah al Qasimi service design Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar

Once upon a time

The Photofile series brings together the best work of the world’s greatest photographers

more purposeful meetings – Create a creative and inclusive environment – Leave participants inspired and ready to take action Whether virtual or in-person

The book also includes a science fiction graphic novella by Mark von Schlegell

Star Machine - Farah al Qasimi service design Ravi ShankarAl Qasimis photographs are filled with flowers but they are rarely real. Instead, they are represented metonymically as object, ornament, pattern, and image. In a series of flower studies, their natural forms are translated materially into a glinting crystal trinket, a perishable garnish carved from a tomato or carrot, and a sugary decoration piped in pink frosting. By capturing this material metamorphosis Al Qasimi amplifies the ways in which flowers