Photography - Life Before Death Series
Posted on April 21, 2008 by dmariemart
I learned about his photo series from an9ie. Like her, I find the Life Before Death images compelling. Please view these pictures of individuals prior to their death and shortly thereafter. Also, read the comments associated with each image. The comments are stirring.
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looking at those photos i felt an incredible heaviness on my chest. i realised that i wasn’t breathing much. they really do knock you sideways, don’t they? such pain. i almost didn’t look at them. i’m glad, in some way, that i did.
Powerful images and daunting. Photography can be such a powerful medium. Unfortunately they bring back too many memories of family and friends who died. Somewhere in my files is the story of an artist who sickened, eventually to die. His family chronicled the changes in his art as the disease progressed. I’ll try to find it to post.
MadSilence
[...] Life Before Death Check out this “sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they died. A challenging and poignant study. The work by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded interviews with the subjects in their final days, reveals much about dying—and living.” From the guardian.co.uk via Argot. [...]