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He speaks to TIME LightBox about his process. TIME LightBox: Tell us about yourself and how you became interested in photography. Michael Peres: When I was in a high school I was planning to go to college to become a doctor. But in my senior year, I was the sports editor for my school yearbook and the kid taking the pictures was someone I didn’t know well but he knew much about photography — so I went with him on the photo shoots. From the moment we developed the photos, I was hooked. The polarity in my wiring changed and I thought that it was the coolest thing.     TIME LightBox: How did this work start? Did you always do microscopic photography? Michael Peres: Not always. When I went to university to study biology, I often took pictures of my dissections and of petri dishes. I loved science, but I loved taking pictures more. After graduating in 1978, I tried to get a job but I was a biologist and getting a job as a medical photographer was not on the cards. Later, I went back to school at the Rochester Institute of Technology and I got a degree in biomedical photography. It was then that I learned about using microscopes.     TIME LightBox: What do you use to take these photos? Michael Peres: I use my own microscopes and my Nikon DSLR camera — I actually use several microscopes, some for photographing opaque objects, and some for semi-transparent objects. I sometimes bring secondary lights in. The microscopes become an optical extensi...
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