The series shows the apartment of a single man shortly after his death in 2008. It begins with a snapshot of him as a young man with a dog, and ends with the face of the dead man, taken in the hospital’s morgue.
In between his apartment: traces of domestic life.
Where did he sleep, where did he sit, cook, and eat?
Where did he wash, and where did he relieve himself?
How did he maintain order, how decorate his apartment?
Household effects, articles of daily use, souvenirs, that which is slightly disparagingly called junk.
The photographs should also be understood before the background of my interest in the world of things, of objects. What can they tell us about a life?
These are intentionally succinct photographs. The intention was to make an initial inventory and not a meditation steeped in memories and sentimentality.
The everyday is not the banal. The everyday is the essence.
