Catherine Chalmers makes gorgeous photographs of things that make us squeamish. In "American Cockroach" she shows us the hideous creature that seems universally to repel humans (I think she gets them back in "Executions"). Close-up images of bugs eating in "Food Chain" simply demonstrate what naturally goes on around us all the time but somehow we find it disgusting. There are other fascinating projects and she also shoots video - "Safari" is absolutely worth 7 minutes of your time, not least of all to see the stick insects trying to cope in the rain. Catherine is off to Costa Rica to record leaf cutter ants for a month, I'll hope to show something of them down the road.

Frog Eating a Praying Mantis © Catherine Chalmers