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Cordyceps

A body taken over: skin stretches, mirrors and sprouts into pale tendrils, like the fungus the series is named after. We find it unsettling and strangely beautiful.

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Shirtless male figure at the centre of mirrored, melting pale forms on black
Small shirtless figure floating in darkness, his body dissolving into twisting white shapes
Blurred bare torso smeared into streaks of white and grey against black
Twisted pale forms like stretched flesh spiralling around a figure in shadow
Vertical tower of distorted pale and red forms rising from a dark ground
Mirrored figure with outstretched arms between red streaks and blue cloud-like shapes
Figure entangled in curling pale and red tendrils, a beam of light behind
Shirtless man crouching amid jagged pale shapes, his face turned to the camera
Portrait of a shaved-head man with a septum ring, lit softly against black
Warped close view of a bare torso and raised fist melting into pale and red ribbons
Mirror image of a warped bare torso and fist dissolving into pale and red ribbons
photographer, artistUnax Lafuente

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