Graceful

Photograph, 21 x 15 cm, £250

Light slowly dimming

This is from a series of melancholy photographs that analyze the state of peace at the end of life. The feeling is associated with letting go, acceptance, calm, succumbing, purity, innocence. They focus on body parts with all the imperfections and faults associated with aging—translucent and sagging skin, age spots, wrinkles, the fragility of bones, flaky hair. The highlight is on the beauty of aging physicality, and on the tranquillity of the end.