"The only complete certainty in life is that one day we will die. It is the most certain thing in the world, and the biggest uncertainty--because nobody can say what will happen afterwards." - Cathrine Ertmann
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Powerful Portraits of Individuals Before and Directly After Their Death
Jan Andersen was 19 when he discovered that he was HIV-positive. On his 27th birthday he was told that he didn’t have much time left: cancer, a rare form, triggered by the HIV-infection. He did not complain…
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The Body After Death, in Photos
He’s no longer nervous to arrive at an autopsy. He feels safe: “People don’t want to deal with it, but if you get to know it a little bit more, it can be less scary.”
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Powerful Portraits of Life (and Death) in Hospice Care
Photographing individuals after their death was a way of giving himself closure–of driving home the fact that these people had passed away, of accepting it, and of saying farewell. “It was important for me to see their faces again,” he says of those who died, noting that in death, all the stress and suffering of illness had been washed away, revealing shades of a person’s character that were lost in pictures taken during their final days.
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A Rare Glimpse Inside a Brooklyn Funeral Home
Copenhagen-based photographer Bjørn Haldorsen began Evergreen, his work exploring a Brooklyn funeral home of the same name, while still a student at the International Center of Photography. In his examination of death and its depressingly pragmatic post-processes, he writes that Evergreen made him “understand the importance of the people closest to you.
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Confronting Photos Reveal What Happens After We Die
While keeping her subjects’ identities anonymous, she records the stages of death, including autopsies and cremations, in quiet detail. Lifting the veil of secrecy that so often surrounds these processes, she reveals moments that are both graphic and serene.
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