Issue South America Specimens 2025

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Photographed by Jason Kim for Issue South America's 'Specimens' story, this close-up beauty still life highlights a delicate, translucent butterfly specimen set atop fragmented magenta pressed powder. The fine grid patterns and fractured chunks of crushed cosmetic pigment provide rich tactile contrast against the insect's paper-thin wings and subtle eyespot details. Bright backlighting illuminates the sheer membrane of the wings while casting soft shadows across the deep berry and plum cosmetic textures.