German photographers Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta embarked on a personal project to capture 24 individuals in the last moments of life before death and the immediate moments after passing on.View a small sampling of this haunting, sombre, but ultimately beautiful photo essay at Guardian’s website here, then read an interview with the photographer here.
34, male and very Cancerian. Often irascible, even if he is prescient to his emotions. Lives for the resonance of beautiful passages, cinematic magic and aural bliss. Dabbles in 
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Got the book when I was in Shanghai and it is something riveting, not frightful or morbid but a very articulated meditation on death. The other more sombre and in-your-face book is a picture book of prisoners of Tuol Sleng, Cambodia. Got that one many years ago, don’t know where it is now but it was a bid grim. Not like the book by Walter Schels.
Thanks for that, Skates. It’d be really interesting to see what the book is like.
that’s some project.
i have some photographs from a series called living with dying where i photographed two men whose time was limited. it was hard psychologically and emotionally.
Bip
I can only imagine the psychological and emotional toll a project like this would bring about.
It’d be great if you shared your project with us, Bip.
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