Flowers for Bea is a book of still life photographs of wildflowers collected close to artist Brendan Barry's home in Devon. The images were created in a camera obscura—a room-sized camera, operated from the inside—using two distinct analogue processes, one a simple paper negative, the other a complex colour-reversal process. The creation of each photograph involved a painstaking process of alchemy and patience, with a successful exposure sometimes taking up to eight hours. The photographs were made during the spring, summer and early autumn of 2020. Each day during the Covid lockdowns, Barry would go for a walk with his daughter around their neighbourhood, and they began a tradition of picking wildflowers—California poppy, cow parsley, cornflower, Queen Anne's lace, hogweed, field scabious, dove's foot crane's bill, meadow buttercup—bringing them home to arrange in vases to be photographed. As the ambient temperature in the room shifts and the chemical concentration changes, so too does the resultant image, meaning no two are ever the same: a fusion of the tradition of art celebrating the transience of flowers and a process that steals them into an uncanny, chromatic afterlife.