Photographer and filmmaker Jan van IJken’s photo series and film peers into the unseen world of one of the most important lifeforms on Earth: plankton. Titled “Planktonium,” van IJken says that the goal was to take the viewer on a voyage into what he describes as a “secret universe” that is inhabited by alien-like creatures. […]
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