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Wesel, Germany; Transylvanian Alps, Romania; Bangkok, Thailand; Cape Town, South Africa;
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United Arab Emirates; Death Valley National Park, California, USA; Yosemite National Park, California, USA; Highway 1, California, USA
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Fatihpur Sikri, India; Canary Islands, Spain; Rome, Italy; Cape Town, South Africa
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Taza, Morocco; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Sahara Desert, Morocco; Cape Agulhas, South Africa

PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES: INGLORIOUS (DEATH)

I am drawn to photographing roadkill, and ultimately fascinated by peoples’ interactions with these unglorified images of death. In modern Western society, it is safe to say that a majority have little framework for death up close and personal. Death happens behind closed doors or on television. We see actual death most often with animals - either abstractly when we eat meat (which is almost completely alienated from loss of life in our societies) and in Texas where I grew up, frequently in the form of roadkill.

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Normally there is an amount of reverence to the abstract notion of death. When it is grotesquely laid out before us, there is repulsion, albeit sometimes accompanied by curiosity. I wonder if this would also happen also if the body were human? I can only speculate. Had we encountered death in another context, we might have experienced emotions of sadness or sympathy. But since roadkill is something gross and banal and there was no prior connection with the living creature, we merely look away or don’t even notice at all. The dead are no longer endowed with any dignity, burial or respect. It is just rotting meat. They are abandoned.

All that being said, it is also interesting to me that frequently, we fail to make an actual connection between the flesh spread on the road and the loss of life, since it is so commonplace anyway. Had the animal been living, many people might feel some harmonious emotion and gain enjoyment by its presence. Watching deer and birds is calming pastime for many, and cats and dogs are frequently our closest companions. However, upon being smushed (by a human), the animal is immediately reduced to a source of disgust, or merely an inconvenience to avoid viewing or hitting again.

The nature of film photography with no zoom lens required me to approach closely and remain still and nearby for several minutes. These still moments of sitting with and observing the dead allowed for a sort of “funeral,” by honorably recognizing their existence, suffering and death. Rather than the process of photography degrading and shaming their corpse, I believe the photography was a step to assuage the dishonor done.
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