Under the soil and out of sight is a highway of interconnected roots. The original wood-wide web, passing information along hyphae about food sources, injury or environmental changes. But what happens when these signals are not picked up by another, more dominant species?

In a time of ecological crisis, the photographs in the project seek to elevate our perceptions of the mushroom and challenge the way we see, use and protect mushrooms and their habitats.

The earliest form of fungi dates 715-810 million years ago. Fossilised microscopic mycelium from that period suggest fungi were vital at colonising the landscape. Over time the giant 20-24 feet high Prototaxites dominated the landscape 350-420 million years ago. This is no longer the case. The birth of the modern day tree forced the mushroom below the canopy where it has evolved into the many species we have today. 

The photographs in Project don’t attempt to reduce the natural world into something sentimental, they aim to heighten our experience of a world that operated independently from anthropocentric experience. A world that has now changed, and whose future has become intertwined to a globally connected, human world.