This is a story about a flower that has made man mad.

Greed, desire, anguish, devotion have all played their part...

No other flower has ever carried so much cultural baggage;

it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behaviour...

plots the ebb and flow of religious persecution.

Anna Pavord, The Tulip

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Semper Augustus was a Rosen tulip, but to call it simply a red and white flower would be like describing rubies and emeralds as red and green stones.

Mike Dash, Tulipomania: The Story Of The World’s Most Coveted Flower And The Extraordinary Passions It Aroused 

Inspired by a botanical diaristic approach these pictures document one years menstrual cycles. Each subject was photographed as found and without intervention.

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This body of work was published in the summer of 2016 by Editions Bessard as a limited edition of 250. Each copy comes boxed with a signed and numbered print.  Introduction by Martin Parr.