Press & media archive.
A growing record of publications, broadcasts, interviews and platforms that have featured Imaginarium of Tears and related microscopic work.
The archive combines dedicated coverage of Imaginarium of Tears with selected features on collaborations and the wider Micrograph Stories practice where that context is relevant.
BBC World Service · CrowdScience
Presenter Caroline Steel collected basal, reflex and emotional tears with the Tear Collection Kit and visited Imaginarium of Tears in the Netherlands.
D&AD
Award-platform feature crediting Maurice Mikkers as photographer on the D&AD-winning Unseen Tears campaign.
Digital Camera World
Photography-industry coverage of the Tear Couture campaign and Maurice Mikkers’ microscopic tear imagery.
Little Black Book / LBBOnline
Industry feature on ASTi’s Tear Couture immersive installation and the microscopic tear photography behind it.
Ads of the World
Campaign archive documenting Tear Couture and crediting Maurice Mikkers as the Imaginarium of Tears artist/photographer.
Het Klokhuis / NTR
Dutch educational television episode on crying featuring the science and visual world of tears.
1883 Magazine
Feature on Christian Hook’s Painting the Invisible, including the collaboration with Maurice Mikkers and microscopic tear structures.
Made in Shoreditch
Feature on Christian Hook’s Sky Arts documentary and his visit to Maurice Mikkers to explore the hidden landscape of tears.
adobo Magazine
Campaign feature on IDFA’s Real Emotions. Real Film. collaboration using microscopic tears.
Little Black Book / LBBOnline
Feature on the IDFA festival campaign created around microscopic tears.
Hackaday
Feature on the custom motorized microscope stage used to create large-scale microscopic imagery.
Deutsche Welle
Dedicated video feature on Maurice Mikkers and Imaginarium of Tears.
Deutsche Welle
Dedicated international television/video feature on Maurice Mikkers and Imaginarium of Tears.
NPO Radio 1 / EenVandaag
Dutch radio feature with Maurice Mikkers about tears, crying and Imaginarium of Tears.
VICE Netherlands
Dutch feature on Imaginarium of Tears, the Tear Collection Kit and the continuing development of the project.
ABC News Australia
Dedicated profile on the beauty and personal stories behind Imaginarium of Tears.
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
Photographic feature on tears under the microscope.
Quartz
Dedicated feature on the unique beauty of human tears photographed under the microscope.
Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine
Dedicated journal article: The imaginarium of tears — Maurice Mikkers.
IFLScience
Feature devoted to the different microscopic appearances of human teardrops.
Al Jazeera
International gallery coverage of REUSE Festival in Kuwait featuring Imaginarium of Tears.
Science Channel
Video feature presenting Maurice Mikkers’ photographs of teardrop salt crystals.
Tiroler Tageszeitung
German-language feature on Maurice Mikkers and the visual landscape of human tears.
National Geographic
Dedicated gallery coverage of the microscopic beauty of human tears.
Smithsonian Magazine
Feature on Maurice Mikkers, Micrograph Stories and crystallized human tears.
WIRED
Major feature on Maurice Mikkers’ microscopic photography and the wider Micrograph Stories practice.
VICE / The Creators Project
Dedicated coverage of Imaginarium of Tears and the visual worlds revealed by crystallized tears.
Business Insider
International feature on what human tears look like under the microscope.
NRC
Dutch newspaper coverage of tears under the microscope.
Daily Mail
Feature on the microscopic images and uniqueness of individual tears.
Fast Company / Co.Design
Design feature describing magnified teardrops as crystalline forms as unique as snowflakes.
WIRED Germany
German WIRED feature on the uniqueness of individual tear micrographs.
HuffPost
International coverage of Maurice Mikkers’ microscopic photography and the wider Micrograph Stories work.
Bored Panda
Dedicated Imaginarium of Tears feature showing a large selection of crystallized tear images.
La Repubblica
Italian science/photo coverage inviting readers to identify tears photographed under the microscope.
Gizmodo
Feature on the microscopic structures and visual secrets revealed by human tears.
Boing Boing
Feature on human tears viewed under a microscope and the Imaginarium project.
Fubiz
Photography feature on the beauty of tears seen through a microscope.
20 Minutes
French news feature on Maurice Mikkers photographing friends’ tears under the microscope.
Laughing Squid
Dedicated feature on the Imaginarium of Tears series and crystallized teardrops.
Vantage / Medium
Long-form visual-storytelling profile of Maurice Mikkers and the wider Micrograph Stories practice.
Science Friday
Science-media feature on Maurice Mikkers’ microscopic imaging practice.
Tech Times
Science image feature including Maurice Mikkers’ microscopic photography.