A biocube placed on the Tamae Reef off the Pacific island of Mo’orea (© David Liittschwager, all images courtesy Smithsonian Institution unless otherwise noted) A biocube in place at the Hallett ...
Since 2007, David Liittschwager–a photographer who worked as an assistant to Richard Avedon and now photographs for Smithsonian and National Geographic–has traveled the world with a bright green, ...
Long live the creepy crawlies, the bugs, the tiny wigglers and wrigglers, the minuscule parasites and nematodes, the mites and oribatids and all the myriad life forms that buzz, crawl and throb below ...
A new exhibit shows the massive amount of wildlife that lives in just one cubic foot of space. “Life in One Cubic Foot,” which opens Friday at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, ...
The exhibition “Life in One Cubic Foot” follows the research of Smithsonian scientists and photographer David Liittschwager as they discover what a cubic foot of land or water—a biocube—reveals about ...
To document the vast diversity of life on the planet, photographer David Liittschwager narrowed his focus. He created a series of images of the creatures and plants that grow, slither, flit or fly ...
A selection of reef creatures from Mo’orea, French Polynesia, revealed through inventorying one cubic foot from a reef off the coast of the Pacific island ...
Photographer David Liittschwager used a green cage measuring 1 cubic foot to introduce random sampling into his documentation of six fragile ecosystems See more in our gallery: “Portraits of ...