Fertility, decay and renewal in Ying Ang’s Fruiting Bodies – in pictures

<p>In this new book from the Melbourne photographer, <a href="https://www.perimeterbooks.com/products/ying-ang-fruiting-bodies">Fruiting Bodies</a> imagines the mushroom as both a biological form and a feminist metaphor. Fungi are captured in various states of emergence as an uncanny stand-in for the female form – soft yet resilient, sensuous and enigmatic</p><p><em>• </em><a href="https://www.perimeterbooks.com/products/ying-ang-fruiting-bodies"><em>Fruiting Bodies by Ying Ang</em></a><em> is out now in Australia ($A70, Perimeter Editions</em>)</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/oct/10/ying-angs-fruiting-bodies-mushroom-fungi-photography-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>