Ori Gersht's best photograph: a bullet hitting a pomegranate at 1,600 frames per second

‘I used a pomegranate instead of a quince – since pomegranates explode like grenades’This image references a 1602 Baroque still life by Juan Sánchez Cotán titled Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber. It’s a very cerebral painting, because he was trying to create a sense of perfect static balance. It must have taken an awfully long time. My photograph was an act of destruction, taken at an unthinkable speed. I decided to use a pomegranate, instead of