As a news photographer I’ve photographed bodies being removed from murder scenes many times. The medical examiner puts the corpse into a body bag, straps it to a gurney and wheels it to a waiting truck which transports it to the morgue. It’s a strangely intimate final interaction a corpse has with the medical examiner made even odder by it’s channeling through media. It’s sad to be forgotten from the world after ones death but it’s even sadder to then be removed from our historical object of reminiscence: the photograph. In doing this, I’m demonstrating photography’s ability to forget.
