AD/DRESSING DEATH
I am seeking volunteers to pose for me in a new photography project exploring the notion of death.
My approach is not macabre or morbid; but a wish to explore a subject that is traditionally taboo in Western culture and only visually represented in relation to religion, war or decease and disaster.
I shall set up a small ‘studio’ space in the crypt space of St Mary in the Castle for a week or so during March. There will be a constructed wooden coffin. I am asking for volunteers to imagine the act of dying and wearing the clothes that you really wish to wear upon death and (if you wish) holding a precious personal object that you wish to take with you into the afterlife.
You will pose in the coffin for a few minutes, effectively staging your own version of your death, while I take photographs. The coffin acts as a ‘stage’ for your enactment.
I will ask you to please sign a model release form to allow my use of the image in related exhibitions/catalogue/promotion and will give you a print to keep.
If you express an interest, I can send you a more comprehensive text in the first instance, and then talk about it on the phone.
I need up to 20 subjects and it would be helpful if you give me a very brief description of yourself, i.e. age, gender, race, and one sentence explaining why you want to participate.
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