A moving post, thank you. Your opening comments about death notwithstanding, something about this series reminds me of The Final Project by Joe Spence, where she documented her experience of terminal cancer. In case you haven't come across it, I reviewed it very briefly years ago: https://www.wallpaper.com/art/jo-spence-moving-last-hurrah-at-richard-saltoun
A moving post, thank you. Your opening comments about death notwithstanding, something about this series reminds me of The Final Project by Joe Spence, where she documented her experience of terminal cancer. In case you haven't come across it, I reviewed it very briefly years ago: https://www.wallpaper.com/art/jo-spence-moving-last-hurrah-at-richard-saltoun
Astonishing. I only know her earlier feminist work but those final photos are incredible. I need to correct that statement about death as a binary!
I'd never heard of this book. Thanks for the introduction.
Thank you for introducing me to this work. I was not familiar with the photographer, which adds to my gratitude! Good pick. Nice work. Well said.
Thank you. He has some really interesting new work in the most recent British Journal of Photography where he is exposing prints to road pollution.
'We have neither the optimism of R. D. Laing nor others who thought we could solve madness by fixing society.'.
This very much seems like a pipe dream these days.
Not a cheerful read … but thought provoking