The x-ray photography of Hugh Turvey – in pictures

Stiletto
One of my earliest images is of my wife Artemi’s leg, produced in 1998 when she was 29. It is a beautiful hand-coloured x-ray image of her tibia, fibula, ossa tarsi, metatarsals and phalanges, or simply titled ‘foot in stiletto’. It is a modern scientific vision of a ‘femme fatale’ … the allure of the woman in a stiletto and the visual insight as to how the foot is indubitably contorted Photograph: Hugh Turvey

Bladderwrack Installation 2013
Photograph: Hugh Turvey

Air (2010)
Photograph: Hugh Turvey

Lily (2008)
Photograph: Hugh Turvey

‘Magic With’
When I see a magician's hat, I think rabbit. I can’t see it ( but I know it is there ). This is cognitive and rational. I believe in magic Photograph: Hugh Turvey

Male and female thornback rays (2009)
Photograph: Hugh Turvey

Sage composition (2014)
Photograph: Hugh Turvey

Woman drinking water (2009)
All images are courtesy of Hugh Turvey, Artist in Residence, The British Institute of Radiology Photograph: Hugh Turvey