Rogan Brown reimagines the human microbiome as an intricately cut paper coral reef.

Detailing diverse bacteria, archaea and fungi he creates paper sculptures hoping to connect the two worlds together.

‘what the reef and the microbiome have have in common is that they both consist of biodiverse colonies of organisms that coexist more or less harmoniously. There are further parallels between coral and human beings in that we are both symbiont organisms, that is we depend on a mutually beneficial relationship with another species: coral only receive there beautiful colours from varieties of algae that live on them and human beings can only exist thanks to the unimaginably huge and diverse number of bacteria that live in and on them.’