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. (read more…)