Portraits of the dying and the newly dead


	Portraits of the dying and the newly dead

enbar

4-2-2008 12:16 AM

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enbar says:

Photographer Walter Schels has created a collection of paired portraits; each pair shows a person shortly before and just after death. The commentary is fairly sobering.

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4-2-2008 1:00 AM

dakotayii

Very powerful.........Thanks

4-2-2008 2:27 AM

tanyamm

What a unique way of getting over a fear.

4-2-2008 4:02 AM

dulios

Wow. Just wow.

4-2-2008 4:45 AM

Brimstone

its a level of bizzare.

The bizarre and grotesque usually pulls the audience.

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