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Revealing What Lies Beneath: Melinda Hurst Frye

Photographer Melinda Hurst Frye captures earth's hidden microcosms using an unlikely tool.

09/24/2025

Art by Northwest

Revealing What Lies Beneath: Melinda Hurst Frye

Season 2 Episode 7 | 8m 48sVideo has Closed Captions

Photographer Melinda Hurst Frye captures earth's hidden microcosms using an unlikely tool.

Zooming in on the forests of the Pacific Northwest, Brangien Davis joins Kenmore-based photographer Melinda Hurst Frye, whose work reveals the unseen world beneath our feet. We get a bug’s-eye view of how Hurst Frye employs a flatbed scanner to document tiny ecosystems, highlighting roots, insects and fungi in stunningly high-res images that spotlight and celebrate quiet networks underground.

09/24/2025

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Art by Northwest

Revealing What Lies Beneath: Melinda Hurst Frye

Season 2 Episode 7 | 8m 48sVideo has Closed Captions

Zooming in on the forests of the Pacific Northwest, Brangien Davis joins Kenmore-based photographer Melinda Hurst Frye, whose work reveals the unseen world beneath our feet. We get a bug’s-eye view of how Hurst Frye employs a flatbed scanner to document tiny ecosystems, highlighting roots, insects and fungi in stunningly high-res images that spotlight and celebrate quiet networks underground.

09/24/2025

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