Fertility, decay and renewal in Ying Ang’s Fruiting Bodies – in pictures

In this new book from the Melbourne photographer, Fruiting Bodies imagines the mushroom as both a biological form and a feminist metaphor. Fungi are captured in various states of emergence as an uncanny stand-in for the female form – soft yet resilient, sensuous and enigmatic

• Fruiting Bodies by Ying Ang is out now in Australia ($A70, Perimeter Editions)