"“The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.”
-Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
Fear of Death is a completed photographic series shot on medium format film. Beginning in march of 2022 and concluding in September of 2023, I traveled between Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and California, producing surrealistic and absurd photographic scenes through the pairing of models, physical locations, sourced props, and hand-built sculptures.
I created these images to examine the role of death as both an American media object and vessel for traversing grief, western culture, perception, aspiration, and collective effervescence."
