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Still Life is a photographic celebration of the work of New York City-based florist, artist, and photographer Doan Ly and her studio, a.p..
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Meet the Florist Behind Instagram’s Dreamiest Still Lifes
02.06.19
Up and Coming
by Monica Khemsurov
Doan Ly‘s floral still life photographs could, in a way, be read as contemporary vanitas paintings — compositions of hyper-saturated bouquets, exotic fruits, and colored lights whose addictive, saccharine appeal might symbolize the fleetingness of beauty, and of Instagram culture itself.
Yet we prefer to look at it like Ly does: The world is a shitty, shitty place right now, so let’s all just take a sec to enjoy some insanely pretty flowers, okay? It appears the internet agrees with her, too, considering that since she began posting her stylized still lifes on Instagram a few years back, she’s amassed more than 60,000 followers and landed commissions for brands like Gossamer magazine and Loeffler Randall.
The truth is that Ly never intended to be an artist — or a photographer, for that matter.
Born in Vietnam, she studied acting after immigrating to