Barbara and Zafer Baran collaborate to make striking images of botanical specimens using digital scanning techniques and ink-jet printing. They place the specimens directly onto the scanner. Light passes through the transparent leaves and petals of the plants to reveal a luminous inner structure. Close-ups of high magnification appear like views of the cosmos seen through a telescope, or bacteria seen through a microscope.

These cameraless images are reminiscent of the photograms of early photographers such as William Henry Fox Talbot and Anna Atkins, made by simply placing objects between light-sensitive paper or film and a light source.