{"id":3661,"date":"2026-10-10T13:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/elizaveta-porodinas-insect-portraits-illuminate-biomimicry-for-atmos-and-a-new-monograph\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T13:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:39:25","slug":"elizaveta-porodinas-insect-portraits-illuminate-biomimicry-for-atmos-and-a-new-monograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/elizaveta-porodinas-insect-portraits-illuminate-biomimicry-for-atmos-and-a-new-monograph\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizaveta Porodina\u2019s Insect Portraits Illuminate Biomimicry for Atmos and a New Monograph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned for luminous portraiture made with legacy magazines and fashion houses, photographer <strong>Elizaveta Porodina<\/strong> pivots to the natural world\u2019s tiniest protagonists. Commissioned by the climate-focused publication <strong>Atmos<\/strong>, she photographs beetles, butterflies, and mantises with a dreamlike ambiance and richly saturated color, bringing her portraitist\u2019s eye to creatures often seen only in passing.<\/p>\n<p>The commission centers on the concept of <strong>biomimicry<\/strong> and appears alongside a feature on <strong>Janine Benyus<\/strong>, who coined the term. Porodina\u2019s images lean into atmosphere and tone as much as taxonomy, treating each insect as a sitter with presence and poise.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:left\">Atmos features and titles<\/h2>\n<p>Several works are identified by title and date in <em>Atmos<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u001cThe Magical Dream\u001d (featured in Atmos, <strong>April 2025<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>\u001cThe Magical Dream\u001d (featured in Atmos, <strong>May 2025<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>\u001cThe Return\u001d (featured in Atmos, <strong>May 2025<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>\u001cThe Dreaming Body\u001d (featured in Atmos, <strong>May 2026<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>\u001cThe Threshold Dreams\u001d (featured in Atmos, <strong>May 2026<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Together, these images reflect a cohesive approach: intensely colored fields and an ethereal sensibility that lift beetles, butterflies, and mantises into the realm of portraiture while keeping the focus on biomimicry\u0014the design wisdom embedded in living systems that Benyus names and studies.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:left\">From magazine commission to monograph<\/h2>\n<p>The insect portraits shown here also appear in Porodina\u0019s new monograph <strong>Found Dreams<\/strong>, edited by <strong>Nadine Barth<\/strong> and released by <strong>Prestel<\/strong>. Within its pages, the work sits alongside more cinematic, fashion-focused imagery, extending a throughline from her established practice into a nature-driven register. The inclusion underscores how her saturated palettes and atmospheric staging translate seamlessly from human sitters to the delicate architectures of six-legged subjects.<\/p>\n<p>Seen in print and in book form, Porodina\u0019s commission for <em>Atmos<\/em> offers a vivid, concentrated look at biomimicry and the insects that embody it\u0014a compact chapter in a broader career that continues to evolve across genres and scales.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>V\u00eda <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2026\/10\/elizaveta-porodina-photos-found-dreams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thisiscolossal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioned by the climate-focused publication Atmos, Elizaveta Porodina turns her luminous portraiture toward beetles, butterflies, and mantises, exploring biomimicry alongside a feature on Janine Benyus. The photographs also appear in her monograph Found Dreams, edited by Nadine Barth and released by Prestel.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happening-now"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}