Walter Schels & Beate Lakotta.

Victorian Memento Mori

Photography & Death have since the earliest days of the medium had a close relationship. http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/terminals/meinwald/images/goulart.jpg&imgrefurl=http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/terminals/meinwald/meinwald1.html&h=487&w=323&sz=38&hl=en&start=5&tbnid=YDjatZIdfGNV8M:&tbnh=129&tbnw=86&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dvictorian%2Bdeath%2Bphotographs%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG The series "Life Before Death" by Walter Schels & Beate Lakotta is a modern thought provoking take on this oldest of photographic genre's, The Memento Mori. On show between 9th April & 18th May at The Wellcome Collection, London. http://www.wellcomecollection.org/