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Photographer Warwick Orme’s Flowers Gone Wild

Warwick Orme’s Light My Fire and Joy Division (2004).Courtesy of the artist and Bond Street Gallery


Aussie photographer Warwick Orme is known for his high-art shots of models against a white background, their fashion (and their complexion) blemish-free. He gives the same diva treatment to these wildflowers that, on the left, evoke the blustery glamour of a lady’s hat on a day at the races and, on the right, an aging widow’s decaying lips. Orme is part of a spectacular group showing of beautified natural objects at Bond Street Gallery through July 31. —Emma Pearse