These photographs are part of the "(Im)mortality" series which
mainly deals with the “memento mori” theme. Photographs are typically used as a way of reliving the past and
remembering the deceased. In a certain sense the photographic medium can be seen as a “weapon”
against the ephemeral and the ever-constant flow of time. The act of taking a photograph may
be immediate/instant (like pointing and shooting a gun) but its results are
timeless. One could say
that by photographically recording “reality” one acquires the ability to slow
down time and “immortalize” a transient moment. In L’Acte Photographique
Phillipe Dubois suggests that the act of taking a photograph is “an
instantaneous abduction of the object out of the world into another world, into
another kind of time”.
