Through a carefully crafted image, a viewer can follow the steps of a process, grasp a complex concept. Examples? Visualize an environment changing over centuries; the steps of virus reproduction; a complicated symbiotic relationship examined through an electron microscope; the ploidy levels of a fern’s life-cycle; an image aimed at a young audience describing an ecosystem’s balance, and its potential for collapse.

Images and notes by Krista Anandakuttan