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Hamish MacPherson writes: A contemporary photography exhibition by Hamish MacPherson, Christopher Wren: What Legacy Now?, draws attention to eight remarkable people continuing Sir Christopher Wren’s different legacies today, three hundred years after Wren's death. One of these is Dr Lucy Collinson is Head of Electron Microscopy at the Francis Crick Institute.

Although best known as England’s greatest architect, Christopher Wren was engaged in a wide range of scientific and social questions throughout his life. For example, Wren had been fascinated by microscopes from his early twenties and, in 1661, he even impressed King Charles II with magnified drawings of fleas and lice. The King asked for more and Wren persuaded his associate Robert Hooke to continue the work. Hooke’s ‘Micrographia’, published in 1665, included 38 illustrations of insects and plants magnified up to 50 times.

The large-scale, ethereal portraits in the exhibition will be on free display at the Old Royal Naval College London, capturing the diverse range of interest Wren had through a modern-day lens. The photographs were created using a flatbed scanner, which creates a mysterious visual quality, highlighting these contemporary figures who have their own shifting legacies across the subjects and fields that Wren himself was interested in and worked in.

Web link: https://ornc.org/whats-on/christopher-wren-what-legacy-now/

Press release: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13p1rSyCHPM-tM7b7hlYdMW7-2T2Mg0BpWc6tqfxdKds/edit?usp=sharing

Images (high Res versions on request): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/dd543wvk1dcf9f41e8l47/h?rlkey=q1g190jnc31ytdnyr8wqsf5is&dl=0

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