Memento mori photography

Explore the haunting beauty of memento mori photography and capture the essence of life and mortality. Discover top ideas to create striking and thought-provoking images that will leave a lasting impression.
Portraits, Victoria, Portrait, Vintage Photos, Victorian Photos, Victorian, Old Photos, Vintage Photographs, Dead

Whenever a relative died when I was a child, we would gather around their body, sometimes laid out on a table, a coffin or slowly cooling under the bed sheets, and say five decades of the rosary for the repose of their soul. I attended at least half a dozen funerals before I was twelve: my father’s side of the family were descended from fertile Irish-Scottish Catholics. The dead always looked more peaceful before they were wheeled off to a funeral home, where make-up was applied, cheeks…

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Sunil Shenoy