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If you were asked to choose a single flower, what would you pick? For the writer, and fine-art and fashion photographer Juergen Teller it would be a petite wild strawberry, while conservationist Isabella Tree would choose a head of ragwort (). Both of their choices are included as images in Kate Friend’s evolving exhibition in which the artist asks creatives and public figures to select a single stem that holds a special meaning for them and then photographs the plant in the chooser’s home or studio. “Relinquishing some control encourages me to relate to the flower in the moment,”

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