Sunday, August 28, 2016
Walter Schels
Photographer Walter Schels, with the assistance of his wife, captured death in a new way. They would go to terminally ill patients at hospitals and ask them if they could photograph them before and after they die. They focused on 26 patients from Hamburg and Berlin, working on the series for a year. Once completed the series was titled Life Before Death. They made a dope book about it too.
http://www.walterschels.com/en/portfolios/portraits/album/8/overview/
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These photos are so captivating, and what's especially interesting to me is that, even though the patients are clearly dead in the second photo, the photo somehow still gives them such personality and such a lifelike quality, or at least to me. I almost forgot they were dead in the second picture for a little bit. Even so, these are so powerful and thought provoking as to the subject of life and death.
ReplyDeleteThis is so scary. Despite them being beautiful photographs, knowing the context makes them hard to look at.
ReplyDeleteThis is so scary. Despite them being beautiful photographs, knowing the context makes them hard to look at.
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