“Still Life”
Whether it be loved ones, family, friends, strangers or even our enemies, we focus the lens on capturing the essence of our subject’s life force.
After death, the photo we have of them transforms into a reminder that it is a dead person looking back at us. Whilst the photo ignites a memory of when the person was alive and takes us back to that moment the picture was taken, we also have the knowledge of the future from when that photo was taken. We know how and when they are going to cease being a photo of someone, and a reminder of a dead person looking back at us.
I wanted to capture the moment that I call ‘still life’. The time after death but before our bodies have decomposed or turned into ash.
©2008 Tim Cragg Ltd
