‘I remember as a little boy,’ Man said, ‘I would sit there and flick through the countless books of botanical drawings that Joseph Banks [and others of that era] did. I just marvelled at the detail of the brush strokes and the colours.’
Years later, working as a photographer in London, Man was taking his lunch break when he happened to glance at the fig he’d just bitten into. ‘This fig was just so beautiful. The moisture and the way that the seeds sat…’ he said.
Without taking another bite, he placed it on the studio’s product-shot backdrop and took a picture. ‘It was very clinical, it was on a white background but lit nicely and it was beautiful. From that
