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Marina Vitaglione has used a traditional photographic technique to produce otherworldly images of samples of London's air pollution.
image copyrightMarina Vitaglione
image captionDrury Way, Wembley, north-west London, sample collected in August 2020
Working alongside scientists from the London Air Quality Network, part of Imperial College London (ICL), Marina was given access to air samples from across the capital, including Brixton Road and Lewisham, south London.
image copyrightMarina Vitaglione
image captionLoampit Vale, Lewisham, south-east London (left), and Drury Way, Wembley, north-west London (right), samples collected in August 2020
Some she put on to a paper tape, using a beta-attenuation-monitoring (BAM) device, and then photographed through a microscope (below).