Clothes for Death is an ongoing project in which I photograph women in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina who have prepared clothes in which they wish to be buried.
In 2006, I received R&D Grant from the Arts Council England. In 2008 I received the photographic bursary from the National Media Museum to continue working on the project in 2009…this Blog is a reflection and the record of my thoughts and notes…


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So, yes, I have made the selection (for now at least) from 450 images!!! Posting here are a few of the selected images…


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Yesterday I heard that Marija, whom I photographed last year, and visited this year (see 9th April post) has died. I felt a sudden thump in my belly and a sense of loss that has stayed with me…She died one month ago, so it must have happened soon after I visited her to give her the photographs…Time is an odd thing and I was glad to have made the time to visit her before her departure…

I am thinking about this connection I have now made with the women I photographed and with their families, it is a strange and wonderful burden to bear…one I am still trying to work out…

I will add some images in my next post…


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…something odd is happening with this blog, I can't edit the last post or add images, let's see if I'm luckier with this one…

A week ago I visited ICIA – Institute of Interdisciplinary Contemporary Arts at the University of Bath where I have been offered a solo show, with Clothes for Death project, starting in September this year. The exhibition will open as part of an international conference ‘The Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal, and as my abstract got accepted I will also be speaking at the conference. More info on the exhibition and conference prep closer to time…

I’m still in the process of looking through, sorting and choosing images. And I’m not even sure why I say still, it’s as though I imagined it to be a quick straightforward thing and it isn’t.
I am going through a process of negotiation between my initial gut reactions and what could be perceived and termed more distant, conscious decision making. Which makes me wander about the relationship of physical and psychological space-closeness-distance to image making and image viewing.
Having spent some time looking through the magnifying glass, enlarging the image 8x, I could get to see quite a bit of detail, face expressions, their gazes…I feel as though I fall back into that space; I remember the whole space not just what the camera captured, and I don’t think I could ever step further then the confines of the room. On one level I feel freer to now observe the image for as long as I want, free from the pressures of the social interactions, and gentle tensions which are present (at least in me) upon entering their homes.

Currently I’m scanning some of the contact sheets so to have another way of looking at the image; and am posting here one of the photographs of Rosa and Cvijeta with their Clothes for Death.
I’ve also decided to book uber-neg-scanner at Photofusion for £35 an hour (ouch!) so I will have to make clear decisions soon as no time to fluff about at this rate!


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A week ago I visited ICIA – Institute of Interdisciplinary Contemporary Arts at the University of Bath where I have been offered me a solo show, with Clothes for Death project, starting in September this year. The exhibition will open as part of the international conference ‘The Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal, and as my abstract got accepted I will also be speaking at the conference. More info on the exhibition and conference prep closer to time…

I’m still in the process of looking through, sorting and choosing images. And I’m not even sure why I say still, it’s as though I imagined it to be a quick straightforward thing and it isn’t.
I am going through a process of negotiation between my initial gut reactions and what could be perceived and termed more distant, conscious decision making. Which makes me wander about the relationship of physical and psychological space-closeness-distance to image making and image viewing.
Having spent some time looking through the magnifying glass, enlarging the image 8x, I could get to see quite a bit of detail, face expressions, their gazes…I feel as though I fall back into that space; I remember the whole space not just what the camera captured, and I don’t think I could ever step further then the confines of the room. On one level I feel freer to now observe the image for as long as I want, free from the pressures of the social interactions, and gentle tensions which are present (at least in me) upon entering their homes.

Currently I’m scanning some of the contact sheets so to have another way of looking at the image; and am posting here one of the photographs of Rosa and Cvijeta with their Clothes for Death.
I’ve also decided to book uber-neg-scanner at Photofusion for £35 an hour (ouch!) so I will have to make clear decisions soon as no time to fluff about at this rate!


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This is Desa's clothes in which she wishes to be buried in, all wrapped up into a bundle. I quite like the way these pieces are folded together. One starts unfolding it in one's mind in order to work out what each piece is…


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