Wednesday, February 4, 2009

jerm IX's hypothetical corpse

confronting mortality, a life-long journey.
this project was born out of my fascination with death. My first hypothetical death occurred at wreck beach at UBC a few days after my 30th birthday.
washed ashore

i got hooked to being hypothetically dead, even if only for a few quick moments.
worker's comp.

roadkill

check out the set here...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jerm9ine/sets/72157603263753101/detail/

in the following months, other hypothetical corpses began to appear online and the hypo-corpse group was born.
check it out here...

http://www.flickr.com/groups/weplaydead/

playing dead in photography is not by any means a new form of expression, in fact it dates back almost as far as photography itself.

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