Body Beasts
Photographs by Darlyne A. Murawski
You’ve got company—and plenty of it. Mites make their home in your eyelash follicles, bacteria colonize your skin, and fleas and lice drop for blood meals.
A landscape of skin, hair, and nails, our bodies harbor a population of parasites that evolved along with us. Adapted to specific body regions, some are so benign as to go unnoticed. Other more harmful organisms must continue adapting to survive our efforts to destroy them.
Photographer Darlyne Murawski gets up close to the beasts among us–from leeches to fungi to lice. Get a good look at the little things that share our personal space.
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