Under the Skin

Under the Skin intends to be a sympathetic

look at the lives of animals and how closely it

is possible to inhabit their psyche.

These photos are all presented in lepidoptery

trays.

Lepidoptery and Taxidermy share similar

qualities to photographs; all three are means

of preservation and deal with frozen moments

in time. Susan Sontag refers to photographs

as 'sublimated murder' and Barthes states

that the act of being photographed 'embalms'

him in that same moment.