Mushrooms & Friends

Mushrooms & Friends is a photography series by Phyllis Ma featuring foraged and cultivated mushrooms. These specimens appear in fantastical landscapes, with their macroscopic details enhanced by dreamlike arrangements. Bathed in technicolor lights, each mushroom evokes a clandestine personality bordering on the majestic and the playful.

So far, the project has produced three publications, with more planned in the future. Mushrooms & Friends has been featured in The New Yorker, The Guardian, National Geographic and other publications.

In the series so far:

Mushrooms & Friends 1, 2019
Mushrooms & Friends 2, 2020
Mushrooms & Friends 3, 2021