Jonathan Singer

Flower Power - Vanity Fair Article about Botanica Magnifica, May 2008

Jonathan Singer in front of his photograph of a Hippeastrum ‘Toscana,’ a new hybrid amaryllis.

Jonathan Singer in front of his photograph of a Hippeastrum ‘Toscana,’ a new hybrid amaryllis. Photograph by Howard Schatz.

Armed with a digital camera, a decades-old printer, and a jeweler’s tool nicknamed the Gadget, New Jersey podiatrist Jonathan Singer takes pictures of endangered flowers. His extraordinary photographs have impressed Eileen Ford, the Smithsonian, and a Japanese collector with very deep pockets. As Singer’s masterpiece, Botanica Magnifica, prepares for a Washington, D.C., unveiling, the author traces the journey of this unlikely “Master of Light.”