Laurent Bochet makes dying twice, and once by fire, a sadly beautiful event to behold. In 2008 he photographed the remains of Paris taxidermy shop (a cabinet of curiosities)– Deyrolle– after it burned. Continue reading “The Beauty of Dying Twice – Laurent Bochet and Deyrolle”
Taxidermy is in a sad state of affairs. It’s been on the decline ever since Russian brothers Dimitry and Filipp Fedulov left the scene in 1907. And we can only lament the passing of F.K. Lorenz and Evitkheivich a few years later. It was also an extremely sexist profession. Most women who worked as taxidermists lived in anonymity. You think I’m joking… Continue reading “The Darwin Museum in Moscow”