Pastel Deaths
JUNE 30, 2011 TAGS:
Photographer Emir Ozsahin made a bold choice when confronting his feelings about the death of a beloved pet. Absent of an image of his pet in august repose to hold onto, he created photos of his own. But unlike the grand tradition of post-mortem photography, he imagined pets reclining in their old age like humans: Asleep in a chair, nodding off while reading, reclined on a bed of flowers.
"By humanizing deceased animals and showing them as if they were sleeping, I tried to briefly touch death and create a series of photographs about pushing away the feeling of disappearing before it hits us hard in the face," says the Turkish photographer whose images, posted first on Flickr, have appeared on a number of photoblogs and tumblrs.
The images are stunning, colorful, rich, but unavoidably strange. Pet death inspires a unique kind of sadness. Find more at Ozsahin's flickr account.
"By humanizing deceased animals and showing them as if they were sleeping, I tried to briefly touch death and create a series of photographs about pushing away the feeling of disappearing before it hits us hard in the face," says the Turkish photographer whose images, posted first on Flickr, have appeared on a number of photoblogs and tumblrs.
The images are stunning, colorful, rich, but unavoidably strange. Pet death inspires a unique kind of sadness. Find more at Ozsahin's flickr account.
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