The Georgia Regents University will host the Royal Photographic Society’s “International Images for Science 2013” exhibition at the GRU Greenblatt and Reese Libraries October 22-November 30, 2014. This will be the only showing in the United States of the RPS biennial exhibition and it will be open to the public during operating hours of the GRU Libraries. This will be a featured exhibition of the 2014 Augusta Photography Festival.
Every two years the Royal Photographic Society sponsors the “International Images for Science” exhibition which showcases the vast range of photography applications within modern-day science. The nearly 100 images for the exhibition are chosen by an expert panel of scientific photographers and scientists. Images from medicine, astronomy, physics, biology and many other fields are featured.
An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, October 28, 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Reese Library at the Second Floor Gallery. For more information regarding the GRU Libraries operating hours, please see Reese hours and Greenblatt hours .
Below is an image from the exhibition. The photographer, Mark Maio, is a former GRU employee who will be speaking at the opening reception.
- “20/20” by Mark Maio
Composite of 20 images of human irises. The colour and structure of the iris is as individual to a person as their fingerprints. Indeed, iris recognition is used in many security applications. The images were captured using a slit lamp camera – a flash passes through a thin directional slit to create a very narrow sheet of light that passes over the iris from the side and the image recorded on a Canon 50D digital SLR. The individual images were then assembled in an image editing program.
