Ce înseamnă când visezi un câine? Mandatory Credit: Photo by Emir Ozsahin/REX (3668848f)
Dog lying on a chair with a warm blanket and open book
Peaceful Portraits Of Dead Pets
A man has attempted to cope with his heartbreak in losing a dear friend by photographing deceased animals as if they have fallen asleep.
Turkish photographer Emir Ozsahin’s ‘Pastel Deaths’ series places pets that have passed on in peaceful and gentle surroundings.
His work sees a dog posed lying on a chair in the garden, comforted by a blanket and with a book to ‘fall asleep’ reading. Elsewhere, a cat is seen lying on a warm rug in a baby pink blanket.
Ozsahin has posed the animals in such a way that the photographs have a very gentle, childlike innocence about them. His subjects look relaxed and content, as though they are just taking a rest.
The photographer says his own loss made him think about death and ways that he could use photography to help him and others view it in a positive light.
A close friend of his passed away in a traffic accident and he recalls seeing her body covered in newspapers on the highway on television. He says she was only 19 and like a sister to him.
Ozsahin explains: „I couldn’t get out of my head the image of her body covered with newspapers. While I was trying to get rid of this image, I realised that the image of her alive was fading away as well. Her last photograph shouldn’t have been like that. Or I shouldn’t have seen that photograph.”
He says the project focuses on what the deceased leave behind and how the people they leave behind want to remember them.
„I worked with animals, and because they are really close to humans, they feel like us. And we humanize them as our human born babies.
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