Flowers become whole universes — vast, breathtaking and eternal — in native New Yorker’s Barbara Bordnick’s “Papaver.” Internationally renowned and award-winning, Bordnick’s photographs have been published in major magazines for more than three decades. Serendipitously, Bordnick became entranced by floral photography after she was forced to substitute a floral arrangement for a model who failed to show up for a photo shoot. To date, she has published three books on floral subjects. Her intimate close-ups reveal the mystically detailed landscapes, textures, colors and artistic patterns within her subjects.

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