Windows to the Soul
Macro Eye Photography

Suren Manvelyan is a photographer based in Yereven, Armenia, who has brought us a viewpoint on humanity that we normally can’t see. His series of macro human eye photography, Your Beautiful Eyes, has gained him global recognition as a photographer, as it should. His photos show the short-sightedness of human reasoning – the assumption that there are a limited range of eye colors, which we often portray as one-dimensional, uniform colors: blue, brown, black, green etc. In reality, when the human eye is examined in Manvelyan’s photos, you can see that the color spectrum is much more varied in each individual eye, and that our iris is a multi-textured, sinewed and spongy curtain that is as distinct as a fingerprint. In fact, they kind of remind me of Dune – looking at many of these I expect a Sandworm to come bursting out of the black pits of the pupils.Manvelyan has also done a series of photos of animal eyes, which are equally stunning, and I recommend you check them out! Below is a huge gallery of his macro human eye photography…