Photographer Bobby Neel Adams avoids the use of Photoshop in his work, relying instead on manual excision, defacement and montage. In “Reskinning Nature,” Adams reimagines the texture of trees by “surgically” replacing their natural bark surfaces with different patterns, colors and materials. Corrugated iron and wood grain mix in a collage of textures that would make unsuspecting viewers do a double take.

“FamilyTree,” a project Adams undertook in 2007 at the MacDowell Art Colony, makes use of similar photographic techniques to combine the individual portraits of his family members into a single image, a visual mapping of phenotypic variation.

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